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EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 395
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The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...
sent province of discussion . That women possess sufficient physical strength thousands to pursue the and mechanical tens of thousands arts , is in proved the factorie "by their s of extensive the north emp and loyment elsewhere by .
health The conditions are a sort of of factory ultimate labor test , in which many being ways - submitted highly inj to urious with results to female less there fatal to is , the reason health to hop of e the that population various , other than branches casual inquirers of industry would pursued imagine at ,
from home reproach , or in workshops on the score adap of health ted for . a In limite any ease d number , they , form may a be better , redeemed alternative than slop-w © rk or starvation .
rope find " - There walks appropriate , are and few in work trades the . metal in In some works glass departments -houses of Birming , nail of ham -factories which , they , women paper are alread -mills might y , em and not
p robust loyed , frames even in of those men . branches It is therefore which are astonishing confessedl that y more they are suit not able engaged for the largel in the ornamental occupied in bronze aring works what , as are is the called case ' in arti France cles de , Paris where . ' women And it are is
y prep managers equall bfemale y astonishing , hands in factories . that where in so a large very few proportion instances of the are inferior women work employed is done as y
surel of " a Hair hair y be - - dresser regarded cutting , and and as perfumer the feminine various , as occupations well branches as what of and work is c in alled in a cluded few hair cases -j in ewelleiy the are business alread , may y
practised by women with marked success . , statuettes " Wood , -engraving engraving , for the j drawing ewellers , of and lithograp the drawing hs on stone of desi , modellin gns for g the for
silk cupations and ribbon for women manufactures . The difficulty , have been does many not seem times to suggested lie so much as oc in - quent educating introduction women for into these remunerative artistic trades labor , as . in This effecting is partl their y owing _siibse to
in the the extreme social timidity customs evinced which render by women it unusual themselves or inconvenient in seeking work for , them and or to evening work with and men to , conform to walk in long distances to at the vary ordinary ing hour regulations s of the day of
workshops . , These causes were foun many d most ways seriously to affect the prosperity of enoug the h wood to teaoh -engraving the women classes , but at almost the Kensington impossible Museum to get them . It afterwards was easy will arise at
into regular paying occupation . The same difficulties every . female turn shops in so " workers almost as to meet every . For in new instance some sp measur here , if , unless the e the occupation p ideas ains , be as taken well is pursued as to the arrange in real common n the ature work , , the of
rooms should oug be ht adapted to be at as least far as under possible female to the overseers ways and , and needs the of the hour occupants s of work . If thi We s is conceive not done , that a severe the good sacrifice of of society moral is and to p act hysical health centre for is inevitable receiving .
" a , as a emp and loyers diffusing of labor information who are , and willing as a to mean introduce ' s of communication women into their between establish those - And
ments , and such applicants as -are qualified for the work required . further change show how , as by the such establishing a very loyment important ' classes of women which , hazardous in shall arts , in and but fact trades wholl be model y hitherto inevitable workshops closed social , to to
them ' These , may are be mere effected emp hints without as to some loss to few health occupations or morals from . which long custom onl and y some has excluded so especiall women y fitted . to There their are capacity many and more habits equally th suite at it d is to strange them , feminine
pursuits how men . have So far graduall as our y monopolised society has yet what been woul able d appear to carry essential out its ly views , no in opx some _^ osition few has branches been met of trade with , which and in custom most cases had entirel cordial y g co iven -operation over to , men even .
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Employment Of Women. 395
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 395
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/35/
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