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    EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEK. 378 I

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    ^ ¦ <» The Fact Revealed In Tlie Census ...

    of work by the admittance of women to tMs department of labor , as all these offices will be freshly created .

    be of If by carried the the report post throug -office be h parliament true authorities that Mr , during there . Sites can the ' scheme next be little session has doubt been and that approved put it into will

    , execution shortly afterwards ; thus affording * a good livelihood to perhaps more than a thousand -women , without exposing even one

    man to the smallest inconvenience . If women were qualified to fill clerkships and other similar

    situations the effect would be not to diminish the number of men now numerous employed , but A merel father y to instead prevent of male bring clerks ing from up both becoming his sons still to more be

    . , clerks and both his daughters to be dressmakers , would train one son and one daughter as clerks , one would daug be hter as dressmaker builder or

    great and governess perhaps demand , and go . the to Fifty the remaining years colonies hence , son where , if Eng workmen land a 's carpenter prosperit of tMs class y or continue are in , ,

    there will be twice as many people employed in work which requires being intelli of education gence , men as as were there must carried are be man the now out case . wo , would ul Half if d have the of be these present women been , if turned , the system instead proposed out of of of the educatio work system whole to n be maintainedyet no

    make place for ; them . Nor would the number of marriages be at all by reduced clerkshi men , ps b as , y to this their which arrangement superior good salarie health , as s some and are attache strength people d , fear would must ; for always still the who be hi would make fille gher d

    where onl them y preferred be the emp clerks loyed and do g in not ive p them receive laces the where sufficientl advantage economy y hi over gh was women salaries an , object to enable and

    them to marry ; for these men either are , or fancy they are , obliged to dress and Hve like gentlementhough by birth they have no

    pretensions of them cann to ot conside afford r to themselve but , s such remain . Thus single great all their numb lives ers : marry

    whereas , if they had been broug , ht up to a manual trade , and had either stayed in England or gone abroad , they would for have been h able

    like penter to marry a gentleman may and earn live , no his comfortabl more money than goes y a on clerk much their , further yet wages , not . being ; He would thoug obliged thereby to a car live

    provide would ier life occupy for and two add his women post to the as , wealth the clerk wife , while of he the married he country himself and by would his the reproductive female lead a hap who

    labor p in , some handicraft . There is but one occupation for men which would be swept away ,

    viz ment ., the which sale of all li will ght articles agree is of more female appropri attire at in e shops to women , an emp . loy Yet

    even in this instance the men now employed would continue at their of fresh would

    no posts longer all their eater lives the , onl profession y large , numb every year as at young present * men ; none

    Employment Of Womek. 378 I

    EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEK . 378 I

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/13/