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BULLETIN

OF THE

American Academy of Medicine.

VOLUME XIV.

1913.

EASTON, PA.:

ESCHENBACH PRINTING Co.

1913.

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THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE is not responsible for the sentiments expressed in any paper or article published in the BULLETIN.

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES.1

By JAMES H. MCBRIDE, M.D., Pasadena, Cal.

The work of woman has always been quite as important to the race as that of man. His work, which took him into active contact with rude nature in the primitive state or out into the world of business in the civilized state, with its aggressiveness and essential warfare, has been more conspicuous and has had in it more of that which appeals to the imagination and makes history.

The primitive woman, however, who kept the camp or her successor who has kept the home has helped equally with man to save the race, and the quiet courage of her obscure life has well matched the more adventurous bravery of man. From the very necessity of conditions hitherto the world has given the greater admiration and the larger credit to the fighting quality of the man, for until now, not only in savage but in civilized times, we have been engaged in pioneering and in organizing the harsher outward-moving forces of society and therefore the masculine qualities have dominated the world.

Now, however, the ruder forces of the earth have been sub

1 Read before the American Academy of Medicine at the Thirty-seventh annual meeting, Atlantic City, May 31, 1912.

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