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already too great , of girls and women who . seek in vice their means of subsistence . "
M . _"VtliiIATjme mentioned several kinds of employment , both : public and administrativefor which women areor would bemore fitly and
, , , usefully employed than men . To the professions already cited "b y M . Horn lie added the stamping of paper and printing . He proved
that the stamp administration obtained from women quite as good work , more assiduity , and at less expense , since women could be
contented witlx a less salary . . * . M . _Belaud remarked also that railways had created new outlets
for women ; he thought , with . MM . Horn and Dunoyer , and in opposition to the opinion of M . Wolowski _, that the multiplication of
these outlets was one of the signs of progress , that it was desirable , and that it should be stimulated by acting upon public o _£ > inion .
He did not , liowever , consider desirable the proposed commercial instruction for women of the middle class , which would have the
effect of retaining them in shops or offices . Now while they were "working at the ledger and cash-box , their children would be
deprived of their care , and would end by being sent out to nurse . This wa , s rather the French system . In England , the . wife is more
rarely seen in a house of business ; but the children receive the maternal care , and all goes on better in the family . M . Benard
confessed also that the question was very complex , and not susceptible of solution "b y any single general . rule .
The questions relating to the instruction of women in professions led to that of their remuneration .
Among the number of arguments militating against the utility of the extension of accessible employments to women , M . Wolowski
mentioned the reduction of salaries consequent on such a concurrence . He affirmed that the facts collected hy researches in
England , Belgium , and France led to the conclusion that the labor . of women and children has produced a reduction in the current
price of labor . M . _Dtjnoyeh did not admit this as a consequence of the labor of
women . He thought besides , that the salary of the wife , daughters , and children in general was necessary for the maintenance of the
family , and that this concurrence of all , in a just degree , for the satisfying of the wants of allwas the normal condition of society .
, M . Dunoyer saw a great analogy between the application of women and children to industrial labor and that of machinery . Forces
until then unproductive became utilised , and there resulted a more fruitful production and . , a more extended consumption .
MM . _Patjil Coq , and Couiitois spoke to the same effect . M . Co a remarked that in this question it was needful to distin- _,
_gtiish the effect of misery or of necessity inverting the duties of man and woman , and also the effect of circumstances causing the wants
of families to progress more than the _simx of the salaries of their
members .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/6/
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