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    368 ON THE OBSTACLES TO THE

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

    workers in jewellery , and painters of porcelain , if they were not prevented Let us b consider y causes separatel to which y , we the will impediments refer hereafter to . each sphere of 7

    industry . tive Tlie occupation employment for women which presents is perhaps the widest that of prospect saleswomen of remunera in shops - ; that less

    than for cles it of thirty was millinery remarked thousand . The by men princi Lord are pal Shaftesbury emp objections loyed in , at urged the Bradford sale against of , various the no substi arti-

    tution First of , that women they are cannot : — stand the requisite number of hours ; stand

    the answer to which is , that thousands of them now working in Secondl manufactorie that s for ladies ten dislike hours a being day . waited on by women . The

    y , ble proverbial to _sliow difficulty that this of proving impression a negative is a delusion renders . it Ladies almost , however impossi- ,

    know that provided they are well attended to , they are generally indifferent the services who of waits men , on yet them their ; and numbers that thoug are more h some than may counter prefer

    balanced man inquire by those of his who own have famil a y special and acquaintanc dislike to e them from what .. the the Let feeling every

    on this subject is , and draw his own conclusions answers he receives

    would The third be impossible . objection for is , that shopkeepers in the fashionable to provide parts lodging of - the houses town for it

    their if left saleswomen to seek their sufficientl own lod y in near would their establi be so little shments under , and control that these that , gs

    it would be difficult to insure g , the respectability of their conduct . There is shoof reason in this objectionthough we do not think

    it is a absolutely reall some y solid and one w positivel ; for the certain question to be is not respectable , whether but a saleswoman whether a

    g a irl year who salary is provided , "but has with to her seek y meals her own and receives lodgings thirty and , or is fort under y pounds little wellthan the

    same supervision girl receivin , is more g or £ Lvepence less likel a y day to conduct as needlewoman herself under , and , having

    equally to provide her own lodgings , and be no supervision _& t all ? somewhereand who doubt

    that with The they remunerative girls are alread more y likel exist loyment y and to lod behave ge than well if left and to ; steadily pine on if a can wretched provided

    p to ittance that department will barel emp of y industry maintain for life women . The ; same in every reasoning path there , applies is

    every clanger The , real but imp the e greatest diment to danger their of emp all loymen lies in t extreme in shops povert is their y . igclasses do

    aorance of accounts . Few women of the lower can sit iccounts down quickl to their y and needles accuratel while y the . In boys many learn schools arithmetic girls . are In made others to , of both certifi

    _vhere the funds will not allow of the employment a -

    368 On The Obstacles To The

    368 ON THE OBSTACLES TO THE

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/8/