Making Both Ends Meet: The income and outlay of New York working girls

m time immemorial, women have, indeed, worked, so that it is not quite as if an entire sex, living at ease at home heretofore, had suddenly been thrown into an unwonte

n, irrespective of the fact that their powers are different by nature from those of men, and should, in reason,

nfully employed? What do they give in their work? What do they get fr

among self-supporting women workers in many fields, away from home in New York. Among these workers were saleswomen, waist-makers, hat makers, cloak finishers, textile workers

s, and idleness. The second part of the questions dealt with the worker's expenses-her outlay for shelter, food, clothing, rest and recreation, and her effort to maintain her strength and energy. In this way the League's inquiry on income

cord, into the chronicles of saleswomen, shirt-waist makers, women workers whose industry involves tension, such as machine

erning the income and outlay of saleswomen has been supplemented by portions of the records of another investigator fo

0 proved that the income and expenditures of women workers in the stores h

oung women interviewed last June may be reasonably regarded as the most truthful composite photogr

t of view of describing personality and character, one might as intelligently make an inquiry among wives, with the intent of ascertaining typic

m to express most clearly and fairly, in the order followed, these common features-low wages, casual employment, heavy required expense in laundry

Lucy Cleaver, a young American woman of twenty-five, who had entered one of t