The Working Woman’s Awakening
By Theresa Malkiel
(In “The Progressive Woman.” American contemporary. Socialist. Speaker and writer on woman, child and labor problems.)
Unconsciously, with closed eyes, driven, perhaps, by the herd instinct that makes her follow the others, the working woman is rising at last from her long slumber....
The solution of the problem of existence is pressing upon her more and more. Even the mantle of marriage does no longer save her from it. The patient sufferer cannot and will not see her children destitute and hungry. She wants some of the celestial promises to be realized here on earth. Hence this general unrest of womanhood the world over.