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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUR WORKING WOMEN AND THEIR EARNINGS. Among European nations none has so great a disproportion of the sexes as our own, yet the position of woman as a worker is far more readily acknowledged in continental States than in England, and foreign women are, as a rule, trained to take part in the bread-winning, and enabled to bear a share of the responsibilities of life after, as much as before, marriage. But we, as a nation, have made no effort to teach our redundant female population to support itself, although our position as a mother of colonies leaves us with a steadily increasing proportion of women who, through the emigration of their male relatives, are forced to provide for themselves. Men emigrate, women remain at home, sometimes through want of enterprise, more often because the care of the sick, the aged, and the helpless devolves upon them, or in deference to the wishes of their friends. In a more natural state of existence than our own, the work of woman is cut out for her. She is the spinner and the weaver, the dyer, tailor and hatter, the miller, baker, confectioner, and brewer. She tends the young cattle, milks the cows, churns the butter, and she can take a part in any labour of the fields. In such communities the question of proportion of the sexes is unimportant, though, as a fact, men and women?save in war time?are usually equal in numbers in sparsely peopled States. But in our thickly packed and overflowing country this simple way of living has long ceased to exist. There is no longer the homestead to provide work for the women of the family, and daughters, as well as sons, must earn their bread away from home. As the result of this we have a nation of working women among us, which, at the taking of the census six years ago, already numbered more than four an...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217951623
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 442
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217951627
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 785 gr


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