Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — Half of the Women Will Be Supporting Themselves in 1940, Pastor’s Prediction [ARTICLE]

Half of the Women Will Be Supporting Themselves in 1940, Pastor’s Prediction

= Rev. Dr. Waldo Amos of Hoboken, N. Y., predicts that by 1940 half the women in the country will be self-sup-porting, and that marriages will gradually decrease in number. “It is a startling fact that young women are not marrying today," he said, according to the New York Evening Journal. “Hundreds of thousands are going into business. The supreme mission of women in life should be to become mothers and to make homes. The objection that many have to being married Is that they become dependents.” Doctor Amos said that all through New England there are many villages which are know’n as “she villages.” The men have left for the large cities in the hope of gaining wealth. “Men are largely responsible for the failure of women to marry,” he said. “Many men are too bus y making money to marry, or to marry on small salaries. This/has forced women into business. j “Statistics show that fin 1900 one out of every five women was self-sup-porting. By 1925 onei out of every three,and by 1940, oneLoqtAqf every two will be self-support!»|K J>