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ASSOCIATION EOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN....
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_ We Desire To Call Our Readers' Especia...
thein , we no longer -wonder to find our hospitals , madhouses , and workhouses , magdalens and penitentiaries 5 filled to overflowing with
the victims . Yet , what is it we working women ask ? what is it we are made
to think and feel through every fibre of the frame with which it nance has pleased of which God in to health endow , us ease as , well and as comfort men , , we and , with for the men mainte , have
equal It is rig work hts ? we ask , room to work , encouragement to "work , aix
open field witli a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work ; it is injustice we feelthe injustice of menwho arrogate to themselves all
profitable emp , loyments and professions , , liowever unsuited to the vigorous manhood they boastand thususurping women's work ,
, , drive women to the lowest depths of penury and suffering . We are sick to our hearts of being told " women cannot do this ;
women must not do that ; they are not strong enough for this , and thatand the other : " while we know and see every hour of our lives
that , these arguments are but shams ; that some of the hardest and coarsest work done in this weary world is done by women , while ,
in consequence of usurped and underpaid labor , they are habitually consigned to an amount of physical endurance and privation from
Seamstresses which In the the May hardiest " number a chronicle man of would of this facts ' shrink Journal ¦ by one appalled we who gave was . , herself in " "Warehouse for a time
a seamstress , ; listen to what she , says about women ' s work and women ' s s in one of the few fields allowed herand then ask
yourselve wage s where are the men who could or would , endure such Work as this ? s
half be . " t One he The sabb word piece t about h workers from remuneration six earn shillings , by working , to yet a I ound hardl all the a y we kno day ek w , half The t the that ni depending w g ht , and to
less on labor an , d time than on the kind p of work . I . have known pay women cession earn twenty then -five fift shillings twelve per eigh week t for five some according eight or nine to the we time eks in of suc the
-, een , , , or , and season infer . Man ior one y , m s an two y w or eeks three the ; several t han months ds will no in t the average year they five - shilling will earn s ,
brace makers even less hands will . On ge etc t an . six , will average shillings earn p four erhaps weekl . y , , whi t le inferior makers , w orkers traw hands and , skir and t hands flower ,
" But the _^ toil— , oh , the toil ! Not for a fair day ' work do they realise an remitting these d bod amounts ly ten —Ib hoar y nt s fair , not ha da v twenty ing y ' w ork w . W I tw mean ho enty can , hours that describe a woman day the for sta shall t six e of sew weeks mind un- ?
No one , yet y conseque there are thousands who / enow exactly . " per In the current number we ive another from the same hand ,
gpaper a record of facts again : " Infant Seamstresses , "—poor babes , and yet more hapless mothers ! May every parent who reads this record
lay it to heart , and join in the good work of helping women to help themselves . God knows the need is sore ! This Association , as yet
in its infancy ? is a direct and immediate channel whereby the many
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/55/
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