Suffrage: Women possess no form of suffrage.
Office Holding: Women are not eligible to any office, elective or appointive, except that they may serve as notaries public.
Occupations: Women have been admitted to the practice of law in a few judicial circuits, but none have been admitted into the medical profession. No other occupation is legally forbidden.
Education: All of the institutions of learning are open alike to both sexes.
In the public schools there are 1,121 men and 1,671 women teachers. The average monthly salary of the men is $35; of the women, $32.40.
FOOTNOTES:
[219] The History is indebted to Mrs. C. S. Burnett-Haney of Stuart, superintendent of purity for the State Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for much of the information in this chapter.