Wales, women in industries in, 160.

Walker, Gen. F.A., on differences in efficiency, 14;
  difficulties of census enumeration, 104.

Ward, Lester F., 26.

Wealth, ratio of increase greater than that of population, 8;
  greater aggregation of, in the United States than in Great Britain, 9.

Weavers of Baltimore, 81.

Weaving, colonial, 60.

West Virginia, working-women in, 110.

Widows, proportion of, among other workers, 118.

Windows, nailing down of, 62.

Wisconsin, average wage in, 141;
  working-women in, 110.

Wives’ earnings, 113.

Woman, primeval, 27;
  Roman, 36;
  property of, 52;
  petition of, in France, 55;
  International Council of, 79.

Women-workers, percentage of, in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, New York,
  Lowell, Manchester, Wilmington, Del., 108, 109;
  according to States, 110;
  of Boston, 114, 116;
  industries open to, in large cities, 124;
  development of her intelligence necessary, 251;
  in German mines, 11;
  why their wages are less than men’s, 14;
  their trades highly localized, 19;
  entrance into trades barred by men, 20;
  increase of, in the United States, 98;
  total numbers of, in the United States, in 1860, 103;
      in 1870, 105;
      in 1880, 105; occupations according to Census of 1880, 106.

Woollen and cotton industries, 98, 108.

Working-girls’ clubs, conditions of, 257.

Working-Woman’s Journal, 255.

Working-Women’s Protective Union, 255.

Working-Women’s Society of New York, its aims, 256.

Worsted and woollen trades, women and children in, 108.

Wright, Carroll D., 115.

Wyoming, working-women in, 110.