When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Biography
Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (née Pond) in New York City New York and raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. National Women's Hall of Fame.

She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.