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    having * excited the jealousy of the men by surpassing them in them skilful forcibl execution deprive , and d consequentl of the maulsticks y earning on * which better it wages is necessary , were by to

    y rest the wrist while painting * . Thus the -women are at once rendered incapable of any fine work , and can only be employed in the

    coarser kinds of painting . The masters submit to this tyranny , fear thoug or riot of h if personal to they their resist own violence , disadvantage and from the women their , being less are - probabl skilful forced y to but afraid yield heavier of from a - strike fisted the

    rivals . This story appeared in the " Edinburgh Review" for April , 1859 , and it is surprising it did not excite more general indignation .

    It certainly appears that a strong body of police and an energetic If mag two istrate or three are all dozen that is of required the ruffians to remed were y sent this to glaring prison injustice for six .

    months with hard labor for assaulting the women , the tyranny would probably be put an end to at once .

    But the chief obstacle , the monster impediment , to the more general loyment of womenin branches of industry which

    require either emp skill or education , is , the impression , that their employ ' ment would throw men out of work , and deprive them of their

    livelihood . From this fear a few benevolent persons , and many who are not benevolentare induced to themselves to any improvement in

    the enlarge education the , here of g of irls fe , male and oppose in to dustry all . measures I shall therefore that might do my tend best to

    sp to answer this objection fully . With regard to educated women , their increased employment need not and would not have the effect

    of throwing men out of work , because the progress of civilisation is continually opening fresh occupations to educated persons ; great

    numbers of women could therefore find employment if they were properlinstructedwithout displacing one solitary man . To give

    an instance y a scheme , is at this moment under considerationwhich if carried out , will give remunerative occupation , requiring , the

    smallest possible amount of physical strength , to some hundreds of good accountants . Mr . Sikesof Huddersfield lias drawn up a plan

    , for increasing the number of government savings' banks . He proto establish one in connection with every money-order office

    throug poses hout the kingdom ; and it appears that the number of these is two thousand three hundred and sixty . These banks are to receive

    the smallest sumsand to be _ojoen every day , in order to afford the greatest possible , facilities for the formation of provident and saving

    habits . In places where the post-office clerk is not already fully occupied

    he will be able to attend to the bank as -well as to his other duties ; but in instances this will not be the caseand a new clerk will

    be required many . Now why should not this clerk be , a woman ? The objection commonlraised against em / ploying women in any

    but the most unremunerative y officesviz ., that they deprive men of ,

    employment , could not be raised here ; no man would be turned out

    372 On The Obstacles To The

    372 ON THE _OBSTACLES TO THE

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/12/