THE WOMAN VOTER'S

MANUAL

Important Legislation in the United States

Affecting Women and Children

WHITE SPACES INDICATE GOOD LEGISLATION,

BLACK SPACES POOR OR NO LEGISLATION,

COLOR SPACES FULL SUFFRAGE STATES

Circle Industrial Welfare Commis

sion to regulate hours, wages
and working conditions of
women and children

2 Child Labor-14 year limit.
Guarded exemptions during
vacations are allowed and
poverty exemptions when
these are neutralized by
Mothers' Pensions laws

Circle 3 Compulsory education-State

wide

4 Eight or nine hour day for

women

5 Minimum wage
6 Mothers' pensions
7 Equal guardianship

8 Age of consent, 18 years
chaste or unchaste

9 Red light abatement
10 Prohibition

Note: Neither Illinois nor any of the Victory States of 1917
are included as full suffrage states in chart analysis

MANUAL

BY

S. E. FORMAN

AND

MARJORIE SHULER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1918