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    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 1...

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    by the Committee prove _tliat such an outlet exists , while it is rendered unavailable bthe want of the necessary agencies . The

    Committee would be y glad to avail themselves of any opportunity for the furtherance of a middle class female emigration . The following

    statement affords testimony to the desirability of taking advantage of the opening thus afforded .

    "Disparity op the Sexes ik Victoria . —Some remarkable facts respecting the disparity of sexes in this colony are disclosed in the

    census of 1857 . Sir Henry Barkly , the Governor , in noticing these factsin a despatch : — It now appears that though

    considerable , improvement says in this respect took place between 1854 and 1857 , yet that the effective disproportion at the latter period was

    far more serious than would be deducible from the fact of there being Since tabling 163 males the portion to every of it 100 above females the age in the of twent entire y years population there .

    , were no less than 217 males to that number , the proportions below that age being pretty nearly equal . There were 88 , 355 unmarried

    men of twenty years of age and upwards to 12 , 545 unmarried women of corresponding ages ; or , to raise the age of marriage

    for men to twenty-one , and lower it to fifteen for -women , there was still an excess of 61859 bachelorsnot too add 5112

    • sense widowers of . the Even evil this as it comp affects arison , the , however . goldfields , , fails , where to convey it appears a , full

    that the percentage of unmarried men is , to that to be found in the seaport townsas 61 to 39 ; orto state the case in another

    formwhere the b , achelors are to the , spinsters in the proportion of more , than 20 to 1 . There are , moreover , 8 , 096 married men

    this chiefl It has state y been in of the alleged things mining , is durin attributable districts g the , whose agitation to the wives difficult of the are land y not of in question buy the ing colony , small that .

    allotments suited to agricultural purposes ( for the miner ' s right itself sanctions a certain area for residence ) , but this idea is not

    " sition borne on out the by p the art fi of gures the , gold which -diggers manifest , desp an ite extraordinary the unsettled nature

    dispoof their pursuits , to enter into matrimony . This may be judged from the fact that only 9 per cent , of the women on the goldfields

    above twenty are unmarried ; while in Great Britain the proportion who marry under that age is only 2 _j per cent . 30 per cent , of the

    girls " The between Committee fifteen also and recommend twenty are that here the married attention . ' of the Society of in such

    should be directed to securing the employment women li and ght as and far suitable as possible occup in ations every as trade hair by dressing which the and requirements hair working of ;

    ladies " In are conclusion supplied . the Committee are able to that however far t say ,

    their efforts may have , fallen short of any expectations which may have been formedhowever little they may have been able to

    accomplish of the great , task which lay before them , they have succeeded

    With Reference To Employment Of Women. 1...

    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 149

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/5/