in the community....

As women have occupied the positions of bookkeepers, telegraphers
and many of what might be called semi-professional callings, men
have entered engineering, electrical, mechanical and other
spheres of work which were not known when women first stepped
into the industrial field. As the latter have progressed from
entire want of employment to that which pays a few dollars per
week, men, too, have progressed in their employments, and
occupied larger fields not existing before....

Woman is now stepping out of industrial subjection and coming
into the industrial system of the present as an entirely new
economic factor. If there were no other reasons, this alone would
be sufficient to make her wages low and prevent their very rapid
increase.... The growing importance of woman's labor, her general
equipment through technical education, her more positive
dedication to the life-work she chooses, the growing sentiment
that an educated and skilful woman is a better and truer
companion in marriage than an ignorant and unskilful one, her
appreciation of the value of organization, the general uplifting
of the principle of integrity in business circles, woman's
gradual approach to man's powers in mental achievement also, her
possible and probable political influence--all these combined,
working along general avenues of progress and evolution, will
bring her industrial emancipation, by which she will stand on an
equality with man in those callings in life for which she may be
fitted. As she approaches this equality her remuneration will be
increased and her economic importance acknowledged....

If woman's industrial emancipation leads to what many are pleased
to call "political rights," we must not quarrel with it. It is
not just that all other advantages which may come through this
emancipation shall be withheld simply because one great privilege
on which there is a division of sentiment may also come.

One of the greatest boons which will result from the industrial
emancipation of woman will be the frank admission on the part of
the true and chivalric man that she is the sole and rightful
owner of her own being in every respect, and that whatever
companionship may exist between her and man shall be as
thoroughly honorable