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    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 1...

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    burden small ; of and which at all men event are s relieved the loss : for would theoreticall be proportionall speaking y less as than the the

    centage destined for the support of such , dependents y was necessaril , y per distributed to all men indiscriminately , whether they had dependent relatives

    burden or not , it of _was those inadequate dependents to meet the real burden borne by such as had . the

    . to the Nor scale is th of ere remuneration any ground to earned fear that by heads , in the of sli families ght readj will ustment be prejudiced referred .

    It , is they more especially that will be relieved of some of the burdens that now press on them so heavily ; their relations in life are more extensive than

    those have their of the kindness young or and the humanity unmarried taxed ; they , not are causelessl more liable y , , but therefore from , the to necessitous condition of many connected with them ; and hence to them the

    relief will be the greatest ; above all , their families will at the proper time of life be able to do something for themselves . These men ,

    therefore sideration , can well of the afford advantage to abate a gained small percentage by themselves from , and their by earning those s hith in con erto - dependent on them . That the abatement will be very small is proved b

    is acts admitted observabl to e independent with respect industry to the working , wa _^ es still classes adjust ; wher themselves e , althoug to h woman a scale y enabling the working man to maintain his wife and family . It is so even in

    classes where a standard of living is scarcely to be found ; much more then will it be realized where social opinion and habitual self-respect unite in securing such a desideratum . "

    Dr . Lee said lie liad felt very great gratification at witnessing this movement for the employment of women ; for it had been a

    crotchet of Ms for a great many years , and we were always gratified to see other people take up our crotchets—they began then to

    look to us a little more reasonable . There were certain laws which : regulated all things in society , as well as in the physical world , and

    he thought the object which they should have in view was to give these laws fair play ; not to control them by any meansbut to

    allow them to have fair play . And he thought the law , s regulating the demand for male and female labor at present had

    not fair play ; that there were fashions and feelings which had crept into our modern society which did not give to female

    labor that fair play to which it was entitled ; that women were excluded from a great number of employments , not because

    either they were physically or intellectually unfit for them , but simply because it was not the fashion . He thought , in short , that

    the employment of male and female labor was deranged , and that this Society should attempt to set it right . Thusfor examplethey

    , , had women in the field doing men ' s work . He submitted that the deterioration and immorality which they were now called to lament

    among their country people was considerably connected with that mal-arrangement—with that employment of women in offices which

    men ought to perform . On the other hand , they had whole classes of employment in the hands of men which ought to be in the hands

    of women . He always felt astonished , and somewhat shocked , at seeing ribbons and bonnetsand other articles of female attire

    , , exhibited by males . They ought in all propriety , and for many

    reasons he need not state , to be in the hands of women . Then ,

    With Reference To Employment Of Women. 1...

    WITH REFERENCE TO _EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 157

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/13/