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226 LOCAL SOCIETIES.
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IJaiSK SOCIETY FOB PROMOTING THE EMPLOYM...
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Northumberland And Durham Branch Of The ...
selves indifferent , we can scarcely wonder , however much we may regret _ittliat master manufacturers and tradesmen are reluctant to
, make the little alterations in their arrangements which would be rendered necessary by the introduction of women . In former times
. girls were taught , and thoroughly taught , the various branches of , manufacture which were then carried on in every house .
Unfortunately for the present generation , we have not yet learnt to accommodate ourselves to the great change which , during the last fifty years
has been silently going forward in our domestic life . The introduc _^ - tion of machinery has taken out of the hands of women the sx _3 m-
ning and the weaving , the knitting and the sewing , which once furnished them with such abundant and profitable occupation . There
appears to be but one resource , and happily it is one from which we need not shrink . "We must gradually and , in the exercise of a wise
discretion , open to women , through a regularJ apprenticeship , all trades and professions for which they are not physically disqualified .
Let us not be mistaken . We do not expect or wish to turn factory-girls into clerks and cashiers , nor cooks and housemaids
into physicians and lawyers . We do wish to see factory girls , if girls are to be in factories at all , in the departments where skill
_rather than strength is required , and under the supervision of women . "We wish to see the poor degraded women who supply
the factories with labor cheaper than that of boys gradually drawn up into the ranks of domestic servants . We wish to see
"the class of young women near to these in degree able to earn a sufficient income to live respectably , and to lay by something for the
future . We wish to see mistresses working with their young servants and teaching them all the little arts which adorn and beautify
our English homes . We wish to see all women who have not households to look after engaged in some other occupation
sufficiently absorbing to be the business of a life . We wish to see the _variety of ability , which is confessedly as great in women as in
men , more fully recognised ; and finally , we wish and confidently _exjDect to see the day when idleness will be considered not ladylike
but unwomanly , and when those at least who desire to learn , and to follow some honorable calling will not be debarred by the
false pride of parents or the prejudices of trade .
Emily Davis , Secretary .
226 Local Societies.
226 LOCAL SOCIETIES .
Ijaisk Society Fob Promoting The Employm...
IJaiSK SOCIETY FOB PROMOTING THE _EMPLOYMENT OF EDUCATED _WOMEX .
This Society , now commencing active operations , has issued the following address in connexion with its prospectus : —
A meeting of ladies for the purpose of promoting" the employment of women Four Courts was held under on the Monday ices _^ August of the National th , 1861 Association , in the Solicitors for the ' Promo Room - , ausp
tion of Social , Scienceat which Miss B . R . Parkes and Miss Faithful entered Employmen into the of W details omen , , of som the e w time orking since of the established Society for in London Promoting . Tli th d
meeting was addressed by the Right Hon . Lord Brougham , Lord Talbot e
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/10/
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