1939: (Comhaire-Sylvain’s Study of Girls’ Leisure Time and Unaccounted-For Hours — Unaccounted-For Time Being Understood as a Threat That Could Corrupt a Gir…

1939: (Comhaire-Sylvain’s Study of Girls’ Leisure Time and Unaccounted-For Hours — Unaccounted-For Time Being Understood as a Threat That Could Corrupt a Girl’s Social Respectability and Therefore Needing Observation, Comhaire-Sylvain Finding That Many of the Girls She Interviewed Were Servants in Elite Homes Spending Over Ninety-Eight Hours a Week Working — a Small Percentage Enrolled in School Full Time but the Large Majority Being Part-Time Students Who Frequently Missed School): Unaccounted-for time in a girl’s day was understood as a threat that could corrupt her social respectability, and as a result, this time needed observation. Comhaire-Sylvain found that many of the girls she interviewed were servants in elite homes and as a result spent over ninety-eight hours a week working. A small percentage of these girls were enrolled in school full time, but the large majority were part-time students, and of those, many missed school frequently — the ninety-eight-hour work week for girls who were supposed to be students exposed the reality that elite women’s domestic comfort was built on the labor of children whose education was sacrificed to maintain it.