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290 WOMEN AND COMMERCE.
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* The October Follo , In Sent Wing To La...
daily on the advisability or otherwise of teaching them Political Economy .- — -On the Professions and Remuneration of Women . )
( Communications : Petition against the Sliding * Scale .- —School of Commerce for Women at Pesth .
M . Ch . Dunoyer , a member of the Institution , presided over this meeting , to which had been invited M . Felix Clavel , Author of
Letters on the Instruction given in Colleges in France , and one of the Editors of the Economiste Beige . _)
M . _Benaed , chief editor of the A . venir Commercial , gave an account of the remarkable progress made by the Petitions , which he
initiated with the view of _promoting the _abolition of the sliding scale . Pie had collected in a few days upwards of forty - thousand
signatures . M . _Hon ] _vr , justifying himself by the example of M . Benard , duly
called the attention of the meeting to another fact in social economics which appeared to him worthy of attention , and which might
be legitimately classed among the subjects then under , consideration . It related to the instruction of women in Political Economy .
M . Horn had received from Pesth the programme of a School of Commerce for "Women , which was to open on the 1 st of next October _* ,
( C This is no isolated fact ; it is connected with the efforts which eminent meneconomistsand philanthropistshave been making
for some years , in the different , countries of Europe , to enlarge the circle of remunerative occupations for women . These efforts are
made specially with much perseverance and manifest success in _„ EnglandSwitzerlandand certain parts of Germany , where
endeavors are , made to emp , loy women by preference in the fine work of watchmaking , in book-keeping , in postal administration , and in
working the telegraph , & c , all of which are found to answer very well , on the whole . Women acquit themselves in these different
tasks , as well and as conscientiously as ' men : and the greater the number of honorable occupations assigned to them , by which they
can subsist , the smaller will be the number of those whorn misery , or at least the want of an assured livelihood , casts into the road to
perdition . All which tends to render women more apt for certain occupations , reasonably conformable to their physical and
intellectual faculties , may then be regarded as useful work , and more or less a civilizing agency . "
From this point of view , M . Horn followed with lively interest the efforts to which he had alludedand whichaccording to him ,
had not yet received in France all the , attention , and sympathy due to them .
M . Benard said , that he fully agreed with M . Horn , and that he had just corrected the _proofs of an article written in the same
strain upon the important subject of work for women , which would in the nextnumber of the Siecle .
appear This communication , fixed the attention of the meeting , and the
general discussion of the evening led at once to the question of work
290 Women And Commerce.
290 WOMEN AND COMMERCE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/2/
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