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Vol. V. March 1, I860. No. 25.
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I.—STATISTICS AS TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF TH...
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ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED _MONTHLY .
Vol. V. March 1, I860. No. 25.
Vol . V . March 1 , I 860 . No . 25 .
I.—Statistics As To The Employment Of Th...
I . —STATISTICS AS TO THE _EMPLOYMENT OF THE FEMALE POPULATION OF GREAT _BRITAIN
_—=«»*- Much Mvolving As An ..Ag Importa...
_— _= _«»* _- much mvolving As an .. ag important itated the questions , respecting controversy ( 1 ) the whether has industrial recentl any such y emp been loyment emp raised loyment of , and fernales at is all still _,- _^ is
he desirable direction renderin , , and g deman some ( 2 ) d to service for what such to extent em the ployment , disputants if desirable should if , at be without satisfie all , and taking d , — in it what may any
side in the dispute , we endeavor to present , in a concentrated shape , a few facts and figures relating neither to the novel subject . recentin fact
Our statisticsit is trueare nor , being hut but a it reproduction nevertheless , of the information be , instructive collected at the at present the cen time sus of to 1851 have ; may
together this information with certain placed inferences before us and in conj a separate ectures which and special the figures form , , when viewed in relation to existing controversies , naturally suggest .
Let us first obtain a view of the entire subject matter of the inquiry In , 1851 by ascertaining the total numb the total er of number females , of of persons all ages , affected living in by Great it .
Britain ( Ireland , therefore not being included ) was 10 , 735 , 919 , Of these and about about three a third -sev , enth viz . s 3 , , 692 or 4 , 218 , 737 , , were 535 , under were fifteen under years twent of y years age ;
of Now age . , it is argued by one of the parties in the controversy alluded remunerative for
to which , that females , as there are are not many physicall kinds y disqualifie of d , it is both occupation proper and if b
desirable that such occupations should be followed , possible , y the at least other all hand those the who opposing have no party indep in endent the controver means of sy support assert that . , On if
females disqualification are not , for subject industrial to a p 11 h labor ysical , inasmuch they are subj as their ect to prop a natural er and ,
, peculiar a business house and , trade famil , and all profession who fail in are— thi - s to enterprise get married being and in y ;
manage the It is position therefore of urged bankrup th t at traders all married who fail female in their s should respective confine pursuits _tliem- .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/1/
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