LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  No minor shall be allowed to sell indecent literature, etc., nor be let out as acrobat or mendicant or for any immoral occupation.  Eight hours a legal day’s work.  No person shall be debarred from any occupation or profession on account of sex; but females shall not be required to work on streets or roads or serve on juries.  No child under 14 to be employed in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or in factory or bowling alley; and shall not labour more than eight hours.  No child under 16 shall engage in occupations dangerous to life or morals; and no female under 16 shall engage in any employment which requires her to stand constantly.  Seats must be provided for all female employees.  No woman shall work more than ten hours a day in stores and factories.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have school suffrage and are eligible to all school offices and can be notaries public.  There are 292 women in the ministry, 117 dentists, 240 journalists, 113 lawyers, 820 doctors, 31 professors, 196 saloon keepers, 8 bankers, 101 commercial travellers, 24 carpenters, etc.

Indiana

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Males 1,285,404; females 1,231,058.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  No dower or curtesy.  Wife may sue in her own name for injuries, etc.  Neither husband nor wife can alienate their separate real estate without each other’s consent.  A wife can act as executor or administrator of an estate only with her husband’s consent.  No married woman can become a surety for any person.  Husband is guardian of children.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, impotency, desertion for two years, cruel and inhuman treatment, habitual drunkenness, neglect of husband to provide for two years, conviction of an infamous crime.

Limited divorce for adultery, desertion or neglect for six months, habitual cruelty or constant strife, gross and wanton neglect of conjugal duty for six months.

LABOUR LAWS:  No child under 12 may work in a mine.  Children under 15 may not be let out for acrobatic or any immoral exhibition or to work in any place where liquor is sold.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Eight hours a legal day’s work.  No female under 18 may work more than ten hours a day in any factory, laundry, renovating works, bakery, or printing office; no woman shall be employed in any factory between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.  Suitable dressing rooms must be provided and not less than sixty minutes given for the noonday meal.  Sweatshops under strict supervision of a State inspector.  No woman may work in a mine.  No Sunday labour.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women may be notaries public. 130 women in the ministry, 34 dentists, 79 journalists, 40 lawyers, 195 doctors, 6 professors, 27 saloon keepers, 2 bankers, 44 commercial travellers, 7 carpenters, etc.