SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women may vote for members of boards of education, but not for State commissioner nor on bonds and appropriations.  They cannot be notaries. 206 women in ministry, 40 dentists, 151 journalists, 66 lawyers, 451 doctors, 26 professors, 337 saloon keepers, 15 bankers, 62 commercial travellers, 31 carpenters, etc.

Oklahoma

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 214,359; female 182,972.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and separate property absolutely.  If husband or wife dies intestate, leaving one child or lawful issue of child, survivor receives one third of the estate; otherwise one half.  If there are no kin, survivor takes all.  Husband is guardian of children, and is expected to provide; but law assigns no penalty if he does not.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for bigamy, desertion for one year, impotence, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage by other than husband, extreme cruelty, fraudulent contract, habitual drunkenness, gross neglect of duty, conviction and imprisonment for felony after marriage.

Wife may have an action for separate maintenance for any of these causes without applying for divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  No children under 15 may be employed in any occupation injurious to body or morals.  No Sunday labour.  Ten hours per day legal labour for children under 14.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women may vote for school trustees.  They may be notaries public. 29 women in ministry, 1 dentist, 5 journalists, 5 lawyers, 26 doctors, 1 professor, 4 commercial travellers, 3 carpenters, etc.

Oregon

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 232,985; female 183,972.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  By registering as a sole trader, she can carry on business in her own name.  Civil disabilities are same for husband and wife except as to voting and holding office.  If husband or wife dies intestate, and there are no descendants living, survivor takes whole estate.  If there is issue living, the widow receives one half of husband’s real estate and one half of his personal property.  The widower takes a life interest in all the wife’s real estate, whether there are children or not and all her personal property absolutely if there are no descendants living; otherwise one half.  Husband and wife are equal guardians of children.  Husband must provide.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for impotency, adultery, conviction for felony, habitual drunkenness for one year, wilful desertion for one year, cruel treatment or indignities making life burdensome.

No limited divorce.  Annulment if either party is one fourth negro or Mongolian blood.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  No child under 14 shall work in factory, mill, mine, telegraph, telephone, or public messenger service; and no child under 14 shall be employed at all during school session.  Attendance at school compulsory between 8 and 14.  Hours of work for children under 16 to be confined between 7 A.M. and 6 P.M.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Ten hours a day the legal limit for female labour.