ABSTRACT
When speak of the problem of women in industry, usually have reference to the conditions under which women work, their hours of labor, night work and wages; and the measures taken to protect women from injurious conditions of employment in their own interest and in the interest of society. If use industry in its broadest sense, embracing all forms of gainful occupation, then the problem of women in industry numerically is the problem of eight or nine million women in the country as a whole. Economists have estimated the number of women in the United States that are organized as 390,000. That is less than one out of every twenty women wage earners. Women’s wages are far below the wages of men. For the manufacturing industries in industrial states the weekly wages of women are approximately half those of men.
