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78 The Century of the Child
then in other European countries, it has become
recognised as necessary that a normal period
of work should be laid down for women as
well. The programme was and continues to
be threefold;—a maximum working time for
women’s work; limitation, or, better still, the
cessation of night work on the part of women;
the prevention, too, of the work of women in
mines and in certain other industries danger-
ous to health; finally the protection of women
who are about to become mothers. In most
European countries there is now a maximum
working time fixed at eight to eleven hours.
Night work, work in mines, and extra work,
is either forbidden or considerably limited,
and a rest period of three to eight weeks is
established for women at childbirth.
From all points of view, an eight-hour
working day should be the highest limit for
woman’s work. There are more reasons for
it in her case than for man’s work. The eight-
hour day means not only for the woman as for
the man the possibility of enjoying her life in
permanent health; it secures time for im-
proving recreation. For the married woman
it is an indispensable requirement. Without
it her home cannot be kept in order and com-
fort, her children cannot be physically cared
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