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ACABEMY OF LYONS. 411
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" Mrs* Jameson Presents Her Compliments ...
slial 6 e l 2 ndly lace , to those open new l careers t to s necessari women , l and taken procure from for them them b work y the which comoymeny
petition rep of men , and emp the changes in manners and customs . " that It of lay more other within to draw the province attention of to this the Academy question , — of a L question yons than of
far more any gravity than superficial minds would be apt to conceive , — Jfor bosom the in district of L e yons of the ( _T agg dep lomeration lorable situation Lyonnaise allotted ) conceals to working in its
women , , unknown consequenc griefs and deep wounds affecting the most sacred ties , — -those of the family . In the workshops to which she is
admittedand from which the competition of men is gradually excluding her , the , woman , married or single , hardly gains her daily bread .
b The laces y women greater and are novelties number confided of men to functions men who . It fill which is a men number could who deal be of usefull lig with ht and y the undertaken sedentary fashions , ;
occupation , s in which , . women , whether young girls or mothers of families There , would is here be therefore more fitl the y p question laced . of a social and economical
problem The Report of the presented first order to . the Academy in the name of the Examining
Committee affirms - that" Teachersdirectresses of charitable institutions , of schools , of post
the offices servan wages , ts and and earned , of work shops -women by men served in fulfilling their by y own oung analagous rooms women or functions , in —housekeepers factories , or , execu are , _j domes t ) aid ing hal t t ic f
same con the " d It rap it work ion even id . developments appears women , " do says but of the aggravate civilization honorable it , Reporter , far in excluding from , M ameliorating . Arles them -Dufour day this , by " that day sad
j from us " tice From func and this tions to inferior h and uman , from di and gnity labors increasing , which result were ly a precar crowd formerl ious of y evils and exclusi posit , and vel , so y manifes of their con d t isorders rar own t y but t .
p h h ysical ich are and esp moral ecially , w afflicting hich _become in great everywhere centres more of industry more , such as Lyons , , ( _Vagglovneration Lyonnaise ) . ''
The i Commission is reasonably astonished that " in spite of the progress of civilization and the softening of if she manners , naturall no scruple the is
inferior made , in of our iaan time and , of of treating requiting woman her services as and wer her e work in y the of this , inferiority" Such a state of things is the more to
measure . be equality regretted of , the " because two , " sexes says the proclaimed Commission by , Christianity " it is opposed eig to hteen that
centuries Our entire ago . " obation is awarded to aims defined in this appr
mannerand we honor the Academy of Lyons for taking the initiative , . We shall make a duty of examining and criticising the of the
statistical papers and salary which data of will women or be theoretic submitted is not among considerations to it ; those but this which . question It can were be resolve in positi vain d by on to
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Acabemy Of Lyons. 411
ACABEMY OF LYONS . 411
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/51/
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