So rapidly have these two elements of applied social science invaded the vocational field that to-day, outside of general and special teaching, they draw the majority of women seeking professional careers into work directly leading to social and personal betterment.

A few women became lawyers, doctors, ministers, and now aspire to political leadership; but for the most part women are true to their sex-heritage now that they have a chance to choose and fit for their work.

The nurture of child-life, the moral safeguarding of youth, the care of the aged, the weak, the wayward, and the undeveloped--these, which have been their special tasks since society began to be rational and humane, are still their main business in the more complex situations of modern life.
=Departments of Household Economics in Colleges.=--When the departments of household economics were added to college courses they were hailed on one side as a needed attempt to "make the higher education fit women for wifehood and motherhood;" and on the other side they were opposed as a base concession to conservative views of woman's position, and as leading toward a lowering of standards in women's higher education.

They were, and are, neither of these.

The college courses in subjects related to the scientific improvement of human beings and their environment are courses leading toward new vocational specialties, which the newly outlined science of race-culture demands.