SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS.  Women have school suffrage.  They may be notaries public. 25 women in ministry, 3 dentists, 12 journalists, 2 lawyers, 61 doctors, 3 professors, 9 saloon keepers 6 commercial travellers, 5 carpenters, etc.

New Jersey

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 941,760; female 941,909.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Dower and curtesy prevail.  She has full disposal of her personal property by will; but must get husband’s consent to convey or encumber her separate estate.  Husband is guardian of children.  Husband must furnish support; but wife must contribute, if he is unable.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for bigamy, marriage within prohibited degrees, adultery, wilful desertion for two years, impotence.

Limited divorce for extreme cruelty.

In case of desertion and neglect to provide, wife has an action for support.

LABOUR LAWS:  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Hours for labour must be from 7 A.M. to 12 M. and from 1 P.M. to 6 P.M., except in fruit canning and glass factories.  Sunday labour forbidden.  No child under 18 may engage in any acrobatic, immoral, or mendicant occupation.  No child under 15 may engage in any vocation unless he or she shall have attended school within twelve months immediately preceding.  No child under 14 may work in a factory.  No female employee shall be sent to any place of bad repute.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women in villages and country districts have school suffrage.  They may be notaries public. 87 women in ministry, 19 dentists, 45 journalists, 23 lawyers, 176 doctors, 4 professors, 208 saloon keepers, 4 bankers, 11 commercial travellers, 12 carpenters, etc.

New Mexico

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  14.

POPULATION:  Male 104,228; female 91,082.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Curtesy prevails.  Neither husband nor wife can convey real property without consent of other.  Husband is legal guardian of children, but is not required by law to support the family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, cruel treatment, desertion, impotency, neglect to provide, habitual drunkenness, conviction for felony and imprisonment subsequent to marriage, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage unknown to husband.

No limited divorce.  But when husband and wife have permanently separated, wife has an action for support.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  There are no other laws relating to women and children.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women may be notaries public. 10 women in ministry, 2 dentists, 5 doctors, 3 professors, 2 saloon keepers, 1 commercial traveller, 3 carpenters, etc.

New York