ABSTRACT
Ir was possibly the fact in former days, and is still the Utopiun theory of many writers, that a woman's p1ace is at horne, and her position in life that of being supported, according to his means, by husband, father, or brother, and the entire scheme of "woman's sphere" was based upon this assumption. The present facts, as shewn by the last census, und smnmed up by Mr J. D. ~1ilne in his recent excellent work, are that "three millions, or near]y one-half the whole number of wornen above tweuty years of age, have no place in °non-domestic industry, and remain at horne as 'wives' and 'daughters j' one million occupy a secondary p1uce in industry as 'farmers' wives,' 'shopkeepers' wives,' &c.; and the remaiuing two millions and a half are engaged in nou-domestic operatiuns on their own account, 01' are of independent means."
