Excerpt from The Public Health Journal, Vol. 7: April, 1916 The fundamental fact which must con trol the humanist determination of woman's place in industry is that nearly every woman is a potential mother. Even those women who are unhappily sterile must be considered through most of life as poten tial mothers, for only prolonged experience can prove their sterility. This potential motherhood is woman's prime social value, of higher worth to her and to the nation than any quantity of cotton she can spin, or ledgers she can balance or ribbons she can sell across the counter. To the maintenance of her power for healthy, happy motherhood, every other factor in her life must be subordinate. Law and custom should distinguish, with eternal vigilance, in matters industrial between man's place and woman's place. Woman's prime difference from man, instead of be ing ignored, as feminists demand, should be more and more watchful'ly considered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.