THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON • CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO OF GIRLS AND WOMEN BY ALBERT H. LEAKE INSPECTOR OF MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION-ITS PROB- LEMS, METHODS, AND DANGERS AND THE MEANS AND METHODS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved LC1500 .24 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 1933 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1918. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. PREFACE THIS book is written as a companion volume to Industrial Education-Its Methods, Problems and Dangers, and The Means and Methods of Agricultural Education. Like those books it is addressed to the great army of men and women who are concerned with the education of that large majority of our population which receives its education in the lower schools, and depends upon that education for the development of cultural ideals and vocational aptitudes. It is intended to appeal to students in colleges and normal schools that offer courses in household arts and other vocational courses for women, to school superintendents and principals, to directors of vocational schools, to social workers, to vocational advisers of girls and women, and to the growing number of lay readers who are beginning to study educational problems and affairs. No attempt has been made to deal with that ever increasing number of professional occupations into which women are now entering, as this branch of the subject is not likely to be neglected, and it is felt that the education of the fourteen to sixteen year old girl is of more vital importance to the nation at large. At this time it is essential that we should not lose sight of the fact that the character of our people will depend even more in the future than it has done in the past upon the education we give to our girls and to our women. Notwithstanding the new avenues of |