The increasing role of women in industry is reflected, although in its unhappier consequent ces, in the records of compensated accidents and awards made under the Workmen's Compensation Law in New York. Their growing assumption of the physical hazards of employment, along with its awards, is told by Miss Auth A. Yerion, referee, who handles the majority of the women's cases in the New York area, where a large share of the State's industry is concentrated, One case in ien brought before the board in ihe area, which includes Westchester County and all Long Island, is brought by a woman claimant. Last years total of compensation claims brought by women now averages 10,000, Miss Yerion estimated, and has shown a steady increase in recent years. A decade ago, the águres indicate, the number of women injured n industrial accidents yearly was approximately 6,000.
Statistics compiled by the State Department of Labour, which administers the Workmen's Compensation Law, show that over half a billion dollars has been paid by industry in New York State to nearly 2,000,000 injured workmen and their families since the law became effective n 1914. Public insistence on passage of the measure is largely attributed to the indignation which followed the deaths of 145 women and three men in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City in 1911.
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