V. THE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE OF WOMEN 107
VI. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 123
VII. THE MEANING OF POLITICAL LIFE 150
VIII. WOMAN'S RELATION TO POLITICAL LIFE 173
IX. THE MODERN FAMILY 207
X. FAMILY LIFE AS A VOCATION 231
XI. CONCLUSION 251




WOMAN IN MODERN SOCIETY

I

What it Means to be a Woman


If we go back to the earliest forms of life, where the unit is simply a
minute mass of protoplasm surrounded by a cell wall, we find each of
these divisions to be a complete individual. It can feed itself, that
its life may go on to-day; it can fight or run away, that it may be here
to fight to-morrow; and by a process of division it can create a new
life so that its existence may continue across the generations. With
such units it is quite conceivable that life might go on through all
eternity, death following birth, were it not that protoplasm contains
within itself a principle of change. Life and change are synonymous.

And this change moves ever toward a complexity, which we call
development, where cells unite in a larger life, and functions and