ibit done wholly or in part by women?" An affirmative
answer entitled the board of lady managers to membership on the jury of
awards, giving them a majority in any department where women were
especially active, and a minority, or total exclusion, where she had
contributed little or nothing to the department, which would seem a most
equitable method.

The impossibility of ascertaining these facts greatly affected the right
of representation of the board of lady managers of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition on the juries of awards.

President Francis, in his address to the board on March 2, 1904, spoke
on this subject as follows:

I wish to say again--I think I have made this statement to you
before--that when we started the organization of the exposition
the question of separate fields of exhibit of competition was
suggested and advanced, but the stronger view was presented as
we believed by the stronger women, that there should be no
contest between individual members of the different sexes, but
that the work of each should be shown--that if women had not
arrived at that stage and made that advancement which permitted
them to compete with men's work, they had advanced but little.
Therefore we did not think of making any separate classification
for the exhibitions of women's work--they came in under the same
classification as men. On most of the lines of work upon which
women have entered, they are holding their own, if not in every
instance.

While there was formerly something to be said on each side of the
question of separate exhibits, the extent to which women now enter into
all departments of industrial and professional activities, renders it
not only difficult, but in some instances almost impossible, to make a
separate exhibit of the part they perform. It is true, if women were
to-day eliminated from the employments in which they are now engaged and
relegated to those of forty years ago, the exhibits of the nature of
man's work would be in no wise affected, and women have not sufficiently
taken the initiative (from lack of capital and adverse competition), in
establishing large manufacturing plants to be enabled by these means to
make exhibits on similar lines; but where women now work by the side of,
and the quality of their mental and manual labor competes satisfactorily
with that of men, it is now her right to receive unqualified recognition
and consi