[85] The Truth about Woman, p. 191.
[86] See p. 51.
[87] This estimate of the number of Women War Workers is given by Sir Leo Chiozza Money.
[88] See p. 155.
[89] Sir Leo Chiozza Money, in an article in Tit Bits (October 21, 1916), “Women’s Share in Winning the War,” says, “Assuming peace to come by the end of 1917, the country will probably contain about two millions more women than men of marriageable age.”
[90] I am here in agreement with Mr. H. G. Wells’ forecast, “What is Coming?” See his essay on Women and the War, already referred to, p. 167.
[91] On this question see The Truth about Woman, pp. 372, 373. An article by Mr. W. L. George, “Women after the War,” appeared in the English Review of December 1. Mr. George gives some very interesting statistics as to the disproportion between the numbers of the two sexes, treating the question from a very new point of view. He shows that the number of unmarried men in England and Wales at the last census so greatly outnumbered the extra women that there were “nearly three men for every superfluous woman!”
[92] I related this incident first in The Truth about Woman, p. 347.
[93] Very interesting statistics in this connection are given in an admirable monograph by Dr. Max Marcuse, Uneheliche Mütter (Berlin, 1907, vol. xxvii. of the Documents of Great Towns, edited by Hans Ostwald).
| Marriages per 1000. | Illegitimate births per 1000. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1876 | 8.5 | 8.6 |
| 1877 | 8.0 | 8.7 |
| 1878 | 7.7 | 8.7 |
| 1879 | 7.5 | 8.8 |