It is parallel to her failure to understand the relation of household economy to national economy.

She seems to lack the imagination to relate her problem to the whole problem.

She will read books and follow lecture courses on Labor and come home to resent the narrowness of her life, unconscious that she personally has the labor problem on her own hands and that her failure to see that fact is complicating daily the problems of the nation.

It is the old false idea that the interesting and important thing is somewhere else--never at home--while the truth is that the only interesting and important thing for any one of us is in mastering our own particular situation,--moreover, the only real contribution we ever make comes in doing that.
The failure to dignify and professionalize household labor is particularly hard on the unskilled girl of little education who respects herself, has pretty clear ideas of her "rights" under our system of government, and who expects to make something of herself.
There are tens of thousands of such in the country; very many of them realize clearly the many advantages of household labor.

They know that it _ought_ to be more healthful, is better paid, is more interesting because more varied.