We are as yet too young in the field to state positively the outcome of the experiment. It is not an easy experiment and there are many possibilities of failure. But in any case it is better to fail trying than to be idly distrustful of the possibility of good coming out of the present conditions under which woman is living. The ignorant, the foolish and the cowardly are in despair because she is becoming base and sordid through the fate laid upon her by industrial evolution. They refuse to see that if she were assisted to a sane adaptation of her life to this fate, she would become only a finer and truer type of womanhood. And perhaps, heretical though it be to say so, it may be discovered that a woman who has missed opportunity for development through wifehood and motherhood, has often been able to reach the full fruition of her womanhood through wisely chosen work. To direct girls judiciously into vocations which may be theirs not for three or five years, but for life, and which may enable them, even without marriage, to fulfil the promise which their girlhood gave of a wise, tender, courageous womanhood, is in itself no mean task. As a precedent condition, the employment-vocation bureau, must help us to discover what is the best work for women to do, and under what conditions they can do it. It will thus aid them to perform that work intelligently, efficiently, and enthusiastically. Then, and then only, will come the just remuneration, the living wage for which women at present struggle in vain. FOOTNOTES: [41] The Alliance Employment Bureau, New York City; the Coöperative Employment Bureau for Women and Girls, Cleveland; Council of Jewish Women Employment Bureau, Pittsburg; Schmidlapp Bureau for Women and Girls, Cincinnati. [42] _A Handbook of Employments_, by Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, Aberdeen: The Rosemount Press; _Report on the Desirability of Establishing an Employment Bureau in the City of New York_, by Edward T. Devine, Russell Sage Foundation; _The Chicago Employment Agent and the Immigrant Worker_, by Grace Abbott, University of Chicago Press; _Annual Reports_ of the Alliance Employment Bureau, _Reports on Investigations_, Mary A. Van Kleeck. [43] An excellent selected bibliography on employment bureaus and unemployment is contained in the report of Mr. Devine above referred to. [44] Besides private trade schools, interesting experiments have been made in continuation and coöperative training in Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, the coöperative plan inaugurated by Dean Schneider in the university has been remarkably successful. [45] Florence M. Marshall: _Industrial Training for Women_, Bulletin No. 4 National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, p. 17. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECT OF THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY ERNST FREUND University of Chicago I