How unjust to the woman worker, and how little justified by actual facts, is this survival of the idea that woman’s place is the home, has been shown through investigations undertaken by the Women’s Bureau and other agencies. The results of these investigations, published in Bulletin No. 30 of the Women’s Bureau, show that the woman in industry is not merely working for pin-money, as thoughtless people assume, but that she is more often not only supporting herself on her inadequate wage, but contributing materially to the support of dependents. “Contributing all earnings to the family fund,” says the Bureau, “is a very general practice among wage-earning women.” This of course means, as the Bureau remarks, that however much or little her contribution may mean to the family, for the woman herself it means a surrender of economic independence. The contrast between single men and single women in this respect is significant. In an investigation conducted among workers in the shoe-making industry of Manchester, New Hampshire, the Bureau found that “comparing single men and women, the women contributed (to the family income) more extensively, both actually and relatively.” The percentage of earnings contributed by sons and daughters is particularly interesting. The Bureau found that “in the families with per capita earnings of less than $500, 49.3 per cent of the sons and 71.6 per cent of the daughters contributed all their earnings, while in families with per capita earnings of $500 or more, 36.8 per cent of the sons and 53.4 per cent of the daughters contributed all earnings.” When one remembers that the wage paid to women was so much lower than that paid to men that the Bureau pronounced them to be scarcely comparable, the fact that “the daughters contributed a somewhat larger proportion of the family earnings than did the sons” takes on added significance. The sons contributed almost as much in actual money as the daughters, but out of their higher wages they retained something for themselves, “thus assuring themselves of a degree of independence and an opportunity to strike out for themselves which is denied the daughters.”