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    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 1...

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    " They resolved on the formation of a society which should have their for its mor object e extensive the opening admission * up of into new emp those loymen branches ts to women of business , and

    alread 1 ' The y open Committee to them found . that they were dealing with a question the female of the

    which more or less affected one-half population indus country try . , they While felt trul that y anxious a great to responsibilit secure new y res openings ted upon for them female in

    proceed to the the choice general by of mean occupations powers s of ex of fitted periment women for the . that . p They The h all ysical advocates resolved strength therefore of and and extreme trades suited to

    oug But opinions ht with at , mi once _tlcieoxy ght to advance they be thr resolved the own theory open to to have both not professions hing sexes , to on do equal . There terms is . of the

    wed preliminary case a great were of crowd — experiment wha question of t can women arose they to dependent be , do at ? inserte what what on d point can ? work and _^ _ve in ; do after the the for social two due them points deliberation scale ? Another is

    thisthey ge felt that they must endeavor to begin somewhere in the lower ranks of the middle class . For hihly educated women we could for

    g * that former a time is do to and say nothing , our we could ; women erimen open ts of up would no no educ new have ation channels failed could owing for do the nothin to labor the g for of ineffi us the - ;;

    cienc , of the latter exp . But we felt convinced that in whatever direction y ¦ we would made be an lessened opening : , the the low pressure class governess on all ranks would woul of d find working become her the services women first

    class tradeswoman , and the poor sempstress withdrawn better paid from as her competition more int in elli starvation gent or favored to competition companions in skill were .

    and Printing on inuir was we suggested found that as severa a suitable l exerimen employm ts on ent for sma -women ll scale , p

    had to further been tried q effort y in in various the same places direction , and with . From sufficient personal success trial to several tempt be

    members of the Committee found that composing could easily the accom business plished must by girls remain , while in they the decided hands of that men the . heavier The Committee parts of

    felt that to make any business self-supporting , to make it a fair tendence money specula and management tion , capital was which known required they friend knew , and of it an was the amount impossible of offered superin for to a -

    emb Committee ark a ce to rtain give am . oun A t well of ca - pital in starting a . printing cause office , in which and apprenticed women onl to y were the office to be G -. emp vg irls loyed _5 a . t a The premium Committee of £ 10 selected each .

    This was all the money help the Societ g y could afford to give ; they that were responsibilit justly afraid y of being incurring assumed responsib by others ility , the in Societ the matter y broug , but ht all on

    its influence to bear , in order to promote the success of the undertaking . i / 2

    With Reference To Employment Of Women. 1...

    WITH REFERENCE TO _EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 147

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/3/