The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

Florence Kelley was an early supporter of women's suffrage. F. This launched her to create the “The Sterling Discrimination Bill” which was an attack against the Sterling Towner Bill.

From its founding in 1899 Kelley served as the first general secretary of the National Consumers League. Florence Kelley (September 12 1859 – February 17 1932) was an American social and political reformer.