Download or read book Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-suffrage States written by Annie Gertrude Porritt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of eight chapters and contains an examination of women's legal status in the areas of protective labor legislation for women and children; minimum wage laws; mothers' pensions; the property rights of married women; child custody; age of consent; control of the liquor traffic; and prostitution. Like the volume by Jessie Cassidy, it deals with each of these areas on a state-by-state basis. It includes the black and white pinwheel chart showing good and bad legislation affecting women, but few other tables or graphs.