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374b EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
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^ ¦ <» The Fact Revealed In Tlie Census ...
would enter "but those learning the trade with the intention of here- ; after keeping * a shop themselves . The new shop-assistants t in silk- ;
be nlercers almost ' , haberdashers exclusively ' , women andlacemen , so that _' s _establishmen when the ts present would herefore race of men milliners had died out the genus would have become extinct ,
without the infliction of the slightest _j _^ _ivation on one individual tion now than employe that , of and compelling with no ' them worse to result take to a share the rising of those * male hardshi genera ps _^ .
which are now the exclusive portion of their sisters ; hardships v w hich of , perhaps their , wou t ld since render as them Sir Archibald less unwilling Alison * to observe enter d the at ser the - -
meeting at Glasgow counry , for raising , * a volunteer corps , " the enlistment of soldiers and sailors is a mere money question . " If men can
enlist obtain unless plenty the of easy overnmen remunerative t can afford labor to elsewhere athem tliey Mher will th not an py g
, g private When emp a man loyers . choose between sellinlace in a comfortable g
shop , and having to endure the , hardships of a soldier ' s or a sailor ' s lifehe naturallfers the shop . Therefore thirty thousand men
, y pre ber milliners the workhouses exist in Eng - ! land Nor , while are they their to thirt be blamed y thousand for sisters this ; it encum is the
system But that chan is in fault resen , not t the individuals t to . women the means of : gran
a special educa g tion , p and so p raise , them to an intellectual equality "with menand ive themas much as the difference in their strength
position allows , an will , equa be g l infinitel chance , y of im earnin proved g . their If , b i read n addi , and ton a t t once this , their the
who powerful are either protection deprived of the of their la-w tools were or extended forcibly to prevented those women from
ferred working on by the their two male millions competitors of our countrywomen , immense benefit who would as the be census con- :
tells usare unmarried and have to maintain themse , lves by their laborwhil , e men would be subjected to no more inconvenience than
is necessary , to enable us to maintain our national defences without having recourse to the aid of foreign mercenaries .
Granting , however , that this was not the case . Supposing * even that there was such , a general want of employment both for men and
women that whatever was added to the prosperity of one sex must be _^ woman deducted ' s question from 7 that ' would of not the abandon other , still their the ground advocates . They of would the
maintain that it was not just to cast the whole of the _suffering thus occasioned on the weaker half of humanity , and that men ought not
to shrink from , taking their share of the misery . Listen to the exposition of the duty of men towards women given by Mrs . Beecher
there Stowe is , and a cross judge or burden if it be to not be the borne true by one one : or " I the take other it , w that here the ver
man who is made in the image of God as to strength and endurance ,
should take it upon himself and not lay it upon her who is weaker ; ..
374b Employment Of Women.
374 b _EMPLOYMENT OF _WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/14/
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