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THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED FEMALE LABOR. 14...
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unmarried sixteen children as a all legacy must from work tlie : tliere beloved is nothing , dead ; unusual and in families here ; and of
cannot it is also support amply proved her in tliat her the old savings age . The of the very average highest governess class of
number governess increased is highl they y paid would , just not because command there great are salaries so few , and ; if the the
pittance Surel accorded then in to a the country average where is an the _irrefragable chances fact of . provision for
women y are so frightfully uncertain , parents in the middle classes oug Firstl ht , — to train their daughters to useful arthowever
some Lumble : y _^ , _because Secondl it y , more to repress " genteel all : " desire of forcing them into tuition ,
Thirdly , to insure their lives when they cannot lay by money for their female children . class
Let us consider more at length these three remedies . No of men can compete with the governess in wretchedness ; their consideration
of misery _« 11 leg being islators super , p - hilanthrop eminent is ists entitled , educators to the , and profound all who are in any
way trying to benefit the condition of the people . It is the plagueand spot to in find the out condition the causes of our and prosperous suggest the and remedies progressive for different country ,
classes of female distress is one of the especial duties of the ladies assembled at this meeting .
As in natural sciences the discovery of great laws is constantly the inaugurated alone by minute and try ob to servation examine of one particular familthe facts type , let of us many leave
census , y , thousands . The father , by his labor of head or hand gains » sufficient to support his wife , and say three children , one of whom
the whether is a g irl irl * . it will The be to probabl father a twop will enny be sent certainl , or to also y an sen for exp d a his en few sive two years boarding boys to one to -school school much : ,
inferior g ; but if there y is work to be done at home she will be kept at home to do it . In the middle-class family we have taken as a
type , she is much employed in making shirts for her two schoolboy brothers . We have heard of a struction case in which in some of the young best
Xadies , who were offered gratuitous inone ladies' colleges , were kept at home for that purpose forward . Her and learning
facility is irl not is insisted fourteen given for on or them , while fifteen to her pursue we brothers shall their certainl are studies urge y find at d home her . taken , When every away the
from g school , if not earlier , ; while the boys proceed to some higher little who the place daug depends of instruction hter as entirel is to permanentl her y , or on future beg his in yearl . y to under learn y income his a s profession he , roof may , perhaps beg ardentl . in But to the have now wish father some that for , anxiety Perhapmay y
an instant that he could leave her an assured livelihood , or a means
The Market For Educated Female Labor. 14...
THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED FEMALE _LABOR . 14 _&
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/5/
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