Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE NECESSITY FOR TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRAINING —FOR INDUSTRY AND FOR THE HOME Concerning industry On account of economic pressure, a large proportion of girls in the public schools drop out as they approach or finish the grammar school. It is plain that some sort of self-improvement should be provided for them after they have left the public schools. The problem of after-training for girls is much more difficult and complex than that for boys, since the trade or vocation which the boy has chosen determines the character of his supplementary training. In the education of the working-girl, there is a twofold demand to be met, that of giving preparation for her temporary calling, and that of fitting her to meet the requirements of her future career as a home- maker. Seven years is the average length of the period during which the female wage-earner is employed, and the period is even shorter for the more unskilled workers. After this, a girl's attention is usually given to the making of a home, and it is in this capacity, as a home-maker, that the greater part of her life will be spent. It is admitted that girls should be skilled in some trade, since their industrial efficiency has become an economic necessity: thus it is clear that their after-training must include housecraft and also knowledge to supplement a skilled trade. These are two entirely different types of training and must be carried on independently of each other, except with reference to those money-making pursuits which may be satisfactorily conducted in the home and which will receive consideration elsewhere. Girls who enter the various poorly paid juvenile employments have little prospect of future progress, and at the end of four or five years of such work are little better off than when t...