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Working Women In Bangor, Eleanor George Dow
Working Women In Bangor, Eleanor George Dow
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The study of labor conditions, especially in relation to women, is a comparatively untouched field in the state of Maine.
In the past few decades the financial contribution to the family by women working outside the home has steadily increased. Therefore, the employment of women constitutes a problem of economic importance.
The employed woman is a problem which is of vital interest to society, for it is a conceded fact that social progress depends much on the woman, as the mother of future generations. The conditions under which the employed woman works, the occupations which she enters, and the earnings …