The public schools and women in office service . e average number belonging are secured by adding thenumber belonging at the end of each month and dividing the total by the number ofmonths. * per cent idle at the time had previously worked. 48 WOMEN IN OFFICE SERVICE. it is apparent that the young girl who has left highschool at the age of sixteen soon realizes that her equip-ment of one or two years in high school is inadequate. The fact that more than one-half of these girls wentto work before they were sixteen years of age accountsfor a similar proportion ( per cent) who had notgone
The public schools and women in office service . e average number belonging are secured by adding thenumber belonging at the end of each month and dividing the total by the number ofmonths. * per cent idle at the time had previously worked. 48 WOMEN IN OFFICE SERVICE. it is apparent that the young girl who has left highschool at the age of sixteen soon realizes that her equip-ment of one or two years in high school is inadequate. The fact that more than one-half of these girls wentto work before they were sixteen years of age accountsfor a similar proportion ( per cent) who had notgone beyond the grammar school. More than one-third (37 per cent) had left before finishing their highschool course and but slightly more than one-tenth( per cent) were high school graduates. (See Table13.) Economic pressure may explain to some extent thislarge proportion of girls who have not availed them- Table 13.— Showing Previous Day School Training of 861 Girls inEvening High Schools. Pupils with SpecifiedDay School Tkalning. High school school non-graduatesNo high school training. .Unclassified Total selves of a more extended day school education, for thefathers of almost two-thirds ( per cent) were engagedin manual work. Economic pressure may also resultfrom the fact that more than two-thirds ( per cent)of the 861 girls studied were of foreign-born than one-half ( per cent) of these girls offoreign parentage went to work before the age of sixteenas compared with about two-fifths ( per cent) ofthe children of native-born parents. Foreign-born par-ents from non-English speaking countries are doubtlessunder a greater disadvantage than those whose nativelanguage is English; per cent of the children of the THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND ITS PROBLEMS. 49 former and per cent of the children of the latterwent to work before the age of sixteen. The personnel of the evening school is so varied as tohome and b
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