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FEMALE POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. 5
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that distaste be very powerful indeed , it might be thought that the possession of a certain independenceor of the abilities requisite to
, insure it , would , by making the possessor more eligible as a commercial property , attract more offers of partnership than would
otherwise be made from the other sexand thus lead to an increased , rather than a diminished , number , of marriage contracts . But it is
not our wish to enter upon this question further , except under the guidance of figures ; and we want to place the following indication fi of gures the
extent before of our the readers repugnance , in order supposed that their may value be tested as an and determined . The number of unmarried females industrially employed at the
age of twenty years and upwards , in 1851 , was 1 , 210 , 663 . Now , as a test upon the point in question , let us see the number thus
emto ploye live d unmarried at the age is of as forty influential years and as is upwards supposed . If in the deterring mere abili from ty
onl marriage _lyy , the this number 1 , 200 , 000 of deaths ought in occur twenty ring years amongst to have them diminishe in that d
period y . According to the usual rate of mortality prevailing at that period , and allowing for an increasing population , the diminution
"would be from 1 , 200 , 000 to 664 , 000 , as the number surviving at the age of forty and upwards . But the actual number become found of the by
the census , was only 12 6 , 551 . "What then could have 537 lausible , 000 as not that accounted they ceased for to by be de unm aths arried ? Is there because any they answer became so
married p ? I am aware that another solution maybe suggested , viz ., that they remained unmarried but ceased to be employed . But the
that not figures emp the show loyed whole that , of number the the age total of of number unmarried forty and of upwards unmarried females , not was females emp only loyed , emp , 000 was loyed , and but or
number 233 , 000 . of All the that loyed is prove sing d le positivel women y by of the this age is th of at twenty a considerable to forty
must have married emp before they arrived at the latter age , and that a considerable number more must either have married or , remaining
from althoug single the , have h prob positiv been abilities e transferred proof of carries the to case us the no fairl ranks further infe of r than the something unemp this , may loyed more we . ? not For But ,
, y p twenty instance loyed , sing , than it le is to pr women assume obably at more that forty the reasonable were employed _unenrp to sing assum loyed le e women sing that le the women at twenty unem at - if it be thu
to had suppose become that unemp the _loj two _^ ed classes at forty of ; sing and le women would — -the justifiable employed and s that mi unemp gration the loye from d— loyed remained one sing class le distinct women to another , obtained or , at then least husbands it would without become in any much important manifest greater
proportion emp than the unemployed , and the theory under _considerar tion would appear to be untenable . For , the number of
unemp loyed , 000 sing , and le the women numb of er the of the age age of of twenty forty and and upwards _up-wurus being _Leiiig
Female Population Of Great Britain. 5
FEMALE POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN . 5
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/5/
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