Remedies must take into account past and present conditions 194 Industrial tendencies 194 Concentration of capital and labor 194 Specialization of labor 195 Associations for mutual benefit 195 Specialization of education 195 Profit sharing 196 Industrial independence of women 196 Helping persons to help themselves 196 Publicity in business affairs 197 The question at issue 198 Impossibility of finding a panacea 199 General measures 199 Truer theoretical conception of place of household employments 199 A more just estimate of their practical importance 200 Removal of prejudice against housework 201 Correction of misconceptions in regard to remuneration for women’s work 201 Summary of general principles 203 CHAPTER XII POSSIBLE REMEDIES—IMPROVEMENT IN SOCIAL CONDITION Social disadvantages 204 Possibility of removing them 204 Provision for social enjoyment 205 Abolishing the word “servant” 207 Disuse of the Christian name in address 209 Regulation of use of the cap and apron 209 Abandoning of servility of manner 210 Principles involved in freeing domestic service from social objections 211 CHAPTER XIII POSSIBLE REMEDIES—SPECIALIZATION OF HOUSEHOLD EMPLOYMENTS