Effects of the denial of the vote—Legislation, administration, taxation—Status—The intolerable slur of disfranchisement—Direct effect of the vote—What women want—How Bills are made—Peaceful penetration—Indirect effect of the vote—Responsibility, independence, co-operation 59 CHAPTER VII THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: (1) THE WAGE-EARNER The domination of economic force—Woman’s natural handicap, motherhood—Woman’s artificial handicap, law and custom—_Laissez-faire_ abandoned—Case of the pit-brow girls—Opening up of trades and professions—A living wage—Danger of sweated womanhood 69 CHAPTER VIII THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: (2) THE MOTHER Neglected motherhood—King Log and King Stork—The Englishman’s almost absolute power over his wife—Socialistic legislation—Endowment of motherhood—Payment of wives—Man’s outlook mainly personal, not racial—Woman’s outlook 78 CHAPTER IX THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: (3) THE HOUSEWIFE The mother is generally the housewife—Convenient and economical—Bad conditions of housework—No reform without discontent—Motherhood and housewifery not inextricable—Co-operative housekeeping—Divorce of producer and consumer—Advertisement and speculation—Waste, adulteration, and ugliness—Specialisation needed in the consumer; also collective effort and political action 89 CHAPTER X THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: (4) THE PROSTITUTE Prostitution the most commercially profitable of women’s trades—Definition—Extent—Is it an evil?—Is it (1) necessary for health, or (2) necessary consequence of evil nature and evil institutions?—Professions and performances—What is wrong with men, women, and marriage?—A complex evil requiring many remedies—Education—Self-respect—Wages—Brutality—Housing— Alcohol—Cruelty—Rescue 99 CHAPTER XI THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: (5) COMMERCIALISED VICE Women’s crusade against prostitution, alcoholism, and war—Decay of Empires—Originally appetites, have become trades—Advertisement and finance—Vested interest in alcohol—Traffic in women—Chicago Vice Commission—More facts wanted—Enormous profits—Trade controlled by men—Ignorance and indifference—Traffic in war 117 CHAPTER XII THE MAN’S WOMAN: WOMANLY