3. So far as manual arts are concerned, the "non-academic" cookery of the girl is balanced by the "non-academic" carpentry of the boy.
4. Right Living and Wise Spending will, to a great extent, get diffused throughout the whole educational system for boys and girls, men and women, alike.
If there remains (and there does remain) certain further specialization which the average girl needs in order to be a good wife, mother, and home-maker, she will get it in "finishing courses" furnished at the various levels of the educational system, when she leaves school, or else (better still) she will get it in "continuation schools" for adults to which she may resort when she is actually going to be a wife, mother, or home-maker.
Why learn really technical specialized things years and years before they are needed? Why learn them at a time when it is not certain that they will be needed at all?
The modern postponement of marriage is here a controlling element.
The fact that in Boston, among women from thirty to thirty-four years of age, 297 out of every 1,000 (more than a quarter) are still unmarried is usually put down to a scarcity of men. That scarcity is exaggerated.
Observe the comparative numbers of unmarried women and of unmarried men in that age-period in Boston:
Unmarried Women 8,081
Unmarried Men 10,651.
Observe further:
The total number of men of all conjugal conditions in the age-period in question is 28,603.