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362 THE OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
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One Great Benefit Of Tliis Association I...
pure sional being desire ; the loyment to motive do good for under . such B definite y service ei official being and emp recognised presumed loyment to conditions " be I mean , mainl profes ; y such , the
ministration emp being , for the time , the fixed and stated occupation of lifeas opposed to the voluntary and occasional occupation in
charitable , service , which every right-minded person endeavors to combine with the business of life .
A difficulty still remains as to those persons whom we are to includeand those whom we are to exclude . Many , no doubt ,
of are domestic engaged , ministration in the task , of from education the pure , and and in various simple desire branches of
doing good ; but still , for the practical convenience of the inquiry suggested , it is best to exclude schoolmistresses and governesses be on
the one hand , and domestic servants on the other , even if they nurses attending either on the young or the sick . The former would naturally be considered -under the head of Education , the
latter under that of Industrial Employment . _^' Those , then , whom I should include are —( 1 ) Professional
nurseswhether engaged in hospital work or district work , whether , in large towns or in the country ; ( 2 ) Bible-women or
poor women employed in religious visitations under the direction of superintending ladiesand whether they be connected with
Nonconformist congregations , , or acting as Parochial Missionwomen within the framework of the Established Church , or
entirely dissociated from any ecclesiastical organization ; ( 3 ) Deaconesseswho are distinguished from the former both by
emworking bracing the parochi , official all agency ( 4 ) Sisterhoods of women so of far the at hi least gher as ranks their , memb and ers by
are not engaged in y the ; ordinary task , of school-keeping ; ( 5 ) Matrons of Institutionswhether those institutions be philanthropic or
penal , whether , they be established by the state or by individuals : I include of course workhouses and prisonsreformatories ,
peniestablished tentiaries , and for orp needlewomen han-homes . or Other for servant " Homes s , out " also of , lace such naturall as those , p , y
fall under this head . I am aware that many theoretical objections may be brought
against this whole scheme of arranging the subject ; but it is accurate enough for practical purposes , and it furnishes a definite
area for a distinct and very useful inquiry . In fact , it is by actually proceeding in these inquiries that we gradually attain
to clearness in our modes of classification . Another objection will occur to many , and by some will be
thoug and we ht differ serious in . our There views is of no reli true gious Charity truth . "without Is there true not Reli danger gion ; ,
then , that a discussion of this kind might degenerate into an angry ployment * It should of women be observed ' s charity , how be ever more , that usefu in l no than way in would the systematic the official care em of - of lace
girls preparing for service , and of female servants out p .
362 The Official Employment Of Women
362 THE OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/2/
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