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their the door attention , and in to which THE . _Eifei they . iSHC would Woman learn ' s Journal all that had , which been mi done ght be by had thes at e
ood Mr ladies . Hasting ( hear s , said hear that . ) they should never be deterred . from doing what it they was considered to do right it because When Miss some Tsa peop Crai le said was it appointed couldn't be to perform done , or soxhe that
duties in wrong connexion with . the Associationhe g was told it was impossible that a woman could fill such a position , and that , it was improper that she should do so . He would not detain the meeting by detailing all the good she had
done for the Association ; but there was not a member of it who , after four year could Mr s' . happen experience Todi > said to it , it would if appeared she retired not consider to from him that her it p one wh lac at e of ( they hear the . greatest wanted ) in calamities this country that
was not so much the means of employing females as to make it fashionable fbr females cientl say , althoug fashionable to take h he emp knew amongst loyment it was . the unpopular As female one deep sex , he l to y would interested take say occupation that in Ireland it was ( hear , not he would hear suffi . ) -
compelled Very y few of to the do educated so by unfortun classes at were e circumstances disposed to ( enter hear , into hear business . ) What , , unless they wanted was that the ladies should take an interest in training females to
business habits . The education of the ladies of the middle classes required to be more and an practical absence . of There everything was too useful much for of the what purposes was called of every " accomp -day lishments life ( hear , ' * , ¦' .
the hear ladies . ) He of woul Dublin d be in most the good happy work to in do which all in-his the power ladies to of co the -operate Association with were Mr engaged MacFakxane . ( who was indistinctlheard ) said that for the last
twenty . -five years the Grangegorman Penitentiary y had been under the management The of resolution a lady , and was it put had and been carried most . admirably conducted .
Miss Dr . Parkes Hancock and moved Miss _Faithfull that the for marked attending thank and s of bring the ing meeting the subject be g iven before to them . ' . .
Mr . Gibson seconded the resolution , which was carried by acclamation . The proceedings then terminated . We have dwelt at considerable lengthupon what took place at
, the recent Social Science meeting upon the question ! of the employment of womenboth because we naturally presume the subject to
be one of great , interest to our readers , and because we are anxious to record in these pages the advance of the movement , which is
nowhere so signally marked as at these meetings . The most indifferent person cannot fail to be struck by the steady and sure growth , riot
only of the practical working of the movement , But of its rise in public estimation .
The number and subjects of the various papers , contributed by * ladies in . the different sections of the recent meeting-- —received in all
cases with respect , and in many looked , upon as valuable contributions—conclusively show , that unfit as we must _acknowledge the
bulk of women to be , to take part at present in the higher and more responsible branches of employmentthat unfLtness arisesnot from
natural incapacity , but from want of , that education and , training which the few have known how to obtain for themselves , and . are
now anxiously desiring to impart to others .
These meetings of the Social Science Association are as yet the
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60 _NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF _SOCIAL SCIENCE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/60/
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