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    296 , THE POSITION OF WOMAN.

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    Scotland , women are largely employed in field husbandry . In Glasgow , they carry coalsand scrape in dirt-heapsand do the roughest

    less cleaning roug . h and Wh better y obj , e paid ct , in . the «• . interest ¦ of woman , , to something

    Secondly , there will be the substitution of educated women for uneducated , in various employments demanding love and know- ,

    ledge in equal proportions . Nurses in hospitalsand matrons in workhouses and gaolsand

    superintendents of charitable , institutions , will be ( if this question , be justly advanced ) educated women , and to secure such , higher rates

    of pay must be given , and such callings raised to the rank of professions . The employment of " nurse" or _" matron" to be

    nobldischarged , must have the social position of a profession , , and y unite adequate remuneration with a command of the hihest society

    equally with the lawyer or the doctor . g Thirdly , there will be the creation of new , professions which do

    not now exist—but for the want of which suffering and wrong abound unnoted and unredressed- —such as lady inspectors of

    workhouses , lady inspectors of prisons , lady inspectors of factories ; nay , lady inspectors of mines—who miht learn something of what their

    fellow women are subjected to , and g , learning , might redress . We shall never gain the higher humanities of civilization until

    educated women bring their influence to bear upon the employments of industrial life .

    Wherever women are industrially employed , and wherever government inspectorship is a necessity , it should be shared by women

    with the educated men who are called to its performance—only -fchus will business become . a part of humanityand humanity a part

    of business . , Fourthlywomen willdoubtlessif a free way be openedenter

    , , , , some professions now considered the peculiar privilege of men , especially will there be lady doctors—why not ?

    The knowledge needed cannot be unfitted for a lady , because it . is in itself the wisdom of a God . If any branch of knowledge be

    improper for women , then must there be impurity in the heart of the Creator . The skill needed is oftenin delicacy of operation

    , , peculiarly suited to a lady ' s hand _; and the observation needed often peculiarly apt for a lady ' s eye .

    On this matter , the " heresy " of the proposal consists in little more than the substitution of skill for ignorance . Women do tend

    upon disease , in its most delicate as its most offensive forms . A medical education would simplive knowledand skill to

    discharge Fifthl offices y , a new now sp ministered irit will be in breathed y ignorance g into and the ge awkwardness treatment of . women

    in those cases where they are now actually employed . A wiser and womanly superintendence must be exercised over

    those thousands engaged in factory life .

    The whole class of servants needs exaltation by some system of

    296 , The Position Of Woman.

    296 , THE POSITION OF WOMAN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/8/