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Vol. IV* . December 1, 1859. No. 22.
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XXXIII.—WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOUKNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Iv* . December 1, 1859. No. 22.
Vol . IV * . December 1 , 1859 . No . 22 .
Xxxiii.—What Can Educated Women Do?
XXXIII . —WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?
; *' We Should Not Omit To Mention That ...
; * ' We should not omit to mention that the or & inary standard of female comas petency oint of , more indeed is not immedi and only ate thi not s promise onl ignored that than in the these talents controversy speculations of a hi we gher , but have kind is actuall been . It considering y is regarded at tMs
p , , y , asserted exhibits that any , symp apart tom from of all radical the contingent innovation obli . gations Here , however of women , it , has it is "been abshould solutely be indispensable called in and , emp as a loye measure d in certain of social departments reform , that of business woman ' . s " It work is
argued that women in workhouses , women in prisons , women in reformatories _^ and women in sickness , do imperatively require female attendance and superviciousl vision ; y that disposed for lack , and of that this b superintendence y excluding wom rising en from female such generations places of trust are but
work and authority infinite damage we not to onl the y deprive whole the social sex bod of y a . remunerative We cannot occupation enter into , this as argument indicating more what particularl has been y called at present the ' . great We field do but of paid allude social to it labor not , merel * but as y
concerned showing wh simp at op ly inions with female are at work employment upon the . "— question _Prom the besides " Time those s" of which Nov . are 17 . So muchdiscussion lias lately been called forth , upon the destitute
, condition of educated women who have to earn their bread , that I think the wisest step now open to us , is to _diseusjs in detail the
various possible distributions of their labor into new and more profitable channels , which I only alluded to last month .
The first point which strikes most thinkers is , that remunerative labornot only in our charitable institutionsbut in those under the
, , control of the Poor Law Board , is eminently needed from the heads and hands of educated womenfor the sake of the inmates of those
, institutions themselves ; and as it is also calculated to draft off from the labor market the best intellectsand the most reliable moral
, natures among women , such remunerative labor deserves our first consideration .
And here I must claim the indulgence of my readers , when I pass in review those social institutions of which I am necessarily ignorant
as regards their practical working . I know nothing personally of hospitals , reformatories , or prisons , beyond the casual chances of
inspection afforded to most ladies in the present time . Of the interior of workhouses I know a little more ; but not very much . I must
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/1/
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