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    speiit would be much more usefully employed in training some to be domestic servantsand in perfecting others in writing , arithmetic , and

    book-keeping , so , as to enable them hereafter to engage in remunerative occupations . *'

    Another employment which women are now endeavoring to enter is the management of the telegraph . Here they do the business

    better than men , because of the more undivided attention which they pay to their duties ; but considerable inconvenience is found

    to result from their ignorance of business terms , which causes them _, to make mistakes in the messages sent . However , a short course of

    previous instruction easily overcomes this impediment . The obstacles to their employment in the watch-making and

    chinapainting departments of industry are of quite another nature from those hitherto spoken of . No education is required for these

    occupations , only manual skill to be acquired by practice . At Geneva , _women are employed in watch-making , in preference to men ,

    both on account of the superior delicacy of their touch , and the greater cheapness of their laborwhich occasions Swiss watches to

    , be so much less expensive than English ones that several thousands are imported into this country every year . Women , however , cannot

    be employed in England in this manner , because of the jealousy of their fellow- workmen . If a master were to employ women in any

    part of the business , the whole of his workmen would strike at once ; and as only a very few women are as yet sufficiently skilful to be of

    use , he could not trust to their services alone , but would be compelled to yield the point and dismiss them . It is hoped , that in

    course of time , by patience and perseverance , this difficulty may be overcome , but it will , probably , be some years before watch-making *

    can be looked upon as a branch of industry open to English women , j-The impediments to their employment in china-painting * in the

    potteries are somewhat of the same kind . It appears that both men and women are employed in this art , but that the women

    as It one would can be be e useless mployed to in give shops this or hi situations gh education of a like in natur workhouse e , unless schools they for which of

    would can domestic deposit be service impossib a sinal . l le sura tor , of pauper money g as irls a , security who should honesty therefore , be traine course d to lishJournal

    where for _f December We five have hundred read , 1859 since , women page writing 278 are , th the emp at above there loyed , in is in the a making manufactory " Eng the woman interior at Christchurch _' s chains for " , naturall

    more chronometers dexterous , they with are their preferred fingers , to _cind men therefore on account being of their found being to require - less y that train . This ing as manufactory . wonien can has perform been that established part of more watch than -making fifty ye which ars , is and tlie shows most

    passengers difficult , and depend on the , perfection that the of onl which y impediment the lives to of their thousands employment of sailors in and its other departments is the opposition offered by the workmen , and it also

    where affords they a useful may hint wish to to watchmakers employ women to , set in the up country any future , where manufactories the spirit of

    combination , is less strong .

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    EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN . 371

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/11/