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EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN GERMANY. 55
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At The End Of A Paper In The English Wom...
It is well to add tliat this is not confined to Prussia . The dignity of work , that most precious and truly honorable of all dignities , is
thoroughly appreciated in Germany , and hence the domestic character which The generall following y prevails is even among a more German striking women illustration . of this than
any of the other cases I have touched on , but it must be viewed as rather Madame an exceptional was instance left a widow , even with in Prussia limited . meansand a very
, large fessions famil but y of how sons to , whom do this she was was most the question anxious to constantl educate y for in pro her
mind . , She was a woman of good birth , good education , and the best social position in the town in which she resided . One day
there appeared in the local newspaper an advertisement announcing that a large bleaching ground was to let ; it was the only
opening which had occurred since her husband ' s death , should she let it lost staff pass , her of ? washerwomen sons A very ' education brief moment iro was ner in s of question and indecision bleachers ; and sufficed she and hired ; issue no time it d , engage advertise must d be a -
, , , ments with her name . Her acquaintances not only wished her success , but secured it when they sent their clothes to be washed ; her scheme
prospered , and instead of losing caste as a gentlewoman , as she would One have great done distinction in Engl between and , she the was position more resp of ected ladies than in ever Eng . land
and in Prussia consists in the fact that here every woman , however unqualified , may become a teacher , and consequently the profession
of governess is the refuge of the majority of those who are destitute , or at least in reduced circumstances . But in Prussia the law forbids
any woman to undertake tuition without special qualifications , tested bexaminers specially appointed by the government . In
very rare y cases it is true this wise regulation has been evaded as regards private teaching in families , but for schools a permission is
required of lady teachers and evasion being is restricted impossible by , and the consequentl compulsion y tile of proof numb of er
competency to teach , destitution , such as exists to so lamentable an extent in England , is unknown in Prussia . Here met , also with , it is to very find
rare ( so rare as to be a fact hardly credited when ) lady teachers who have adopted the profession from any motive except the necessity of earning their own bread or that of their
families ; but in Germany this is far from being the case . The position of a teacher is one , not of isolation , but of social equality ,
and the task of teaching is adopted as a labor of love by many who has might given live them in idleness , and to , but carry who out desire the S to cripture employ maxim the talents " By love God
serve one another , "
Employment Of Women In Germany. 55
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN GERMANY . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/55/
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