Looking at the problem in a broad human light, it is difficult to say which is the graver evil, the additional burden of the domestic work, so far as it is done, or the habitual neglect of it, where it is evaded.

Here perhaps the former point of view is more pertinent.

To the long hours of the factory-worker, or the shopwoman, we must often add the irksome duties which to a weary wife must make the return home a pain rather than a pleasure.

When the industrial work is carried on at home the worries and interruptions of family life must always contribute to the difficulty and intensity of the toil, and tell upon the nervous system and the general health of the women-workers.
Other evils, incident on woman's industrial work, do not require elaboration, though their cumulative effect is often very real.

Many women-workers, the locality of whose home depends on the work of their husband or father, are obliged to travel every day long distances to and from their work.