The one in which she earns outside the home must in the long run and the large way be subordinated to the joint partnership of the household in which she bears a larger share of the internal management and he the heavier burden of the outside support.
Any thorough-going discussion of the questions involved in the wage-earning of married women and mothers outside the home must include study of actual expense of alternate plans.

The fundamental question may be one concerning the social value of the woman's vocational work.

The next must certainly be what would the family treasury gain or lose by the housemother's continued vocational service outside the home.

In the suggestive and encouraging book by Mrs.Mary Hinman Abel, entitled _Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income_, this economic aspect of the problem is treated with definiteness.

In addition to the general conclusion reached by many that a family income of from $2,500 to $3,000 must be reached before continual hired help can be economically justified, Mrs.Abel shows by tables at pre-war prices that unless a married woman has a high-grade profession with a good independent income the duties performed by the average housemother within the home cannot be hired without a distinct economic loss to the family treasury.