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408 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS
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There Is A General Impression That The D...
whenever always be a endured false step in retracing has been * it taken , and , in some employ suffering ing men must in
trades suited to women a false step has been taken . Mr . Howson , the Professor of Political Economy at Dublin University , has
remarked that to employ men to do work which can be as effectivelperformed by women is as bad policy as it would be
to employ y an engine of fifty-horse power , where one of forty would suffice .
cours The e question or endeavour now is to , whether retrace our we shall . continu It is but e in a choice the false or
evilsand , we must decide whether it way is a greater evil for women to continue , unable to earn an honest livelihoodor for the men
in certain trades to be deprived of some accustomed , enjoyments ,, though still retaining- enough for the support of themselves
and families in health and tolerable comfort . can It onl appears y be to justified me that on our the continuance should principle suffer of on the the but present lad it y is who sad system when said ,
th men _" It erefore s have eems not to natura endure l that or privation shocking women . " that If women we think , shoul it d natural loe unable , and
to earn an honest wrong livelihoodthen let us make no change ; but if we believe that God is no , respecter of persons , and that the
that happiness of men of women we is ht of to as endeavour much importance to lay the in His burden eyes as of
poverty as equ , ally oug as possible on both , and not to place the chief weiht on those who are the least able to bear itso as to
crush them g to the earth . , fair We readjustment must remember of the , too labour , that m the arket evil would s which be but woul temporary d attend a
, the while course the of benefit a generation s arising the from inconvenience it would be occasioned permanent b . y the In
introduction of women into easy trades would be over , while the change advantage had been to made societ a y hundred would years last ago for , centuries comparativel distress . If y into few the
which workmen our wo working uld have women suffered are now from plunged it , whil would e the never have existed in its present extent . If inconvenienced the change was to it take would place be
at oncethe number of workmen by be smaller saved , than a century if it is delayed of suffering a century . is In , this while , as our the in women every difficult would other
it the cas is e change , the to retrace longer is not our the made wrong steps quickl . course It should the trade pursued be observed in all articles more , too , that which if
leave are capable us , and of be importation established and instead y , can be in made those countries by women where , will
women The emp are loyment freely allowed of women to engag in France e in them is rap . idly extending in
408 On The Cause Of The Distress
408 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/48/
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