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    112 A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE.

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    XVII.—A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IJNT WOMAN'S W...

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    w Nearly a year has now passed since, th...

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    Life Assunaisrce Has Long Since Become A...

    We have thus given our readers a statement of the legal form under which all Friendly Societies must be created . Although

    they may prove two pages of very dry reading , they will nevertheless assist those who are interested in such Societies , and anxious

    to establish them , in estimating the necessary precautions and preliminary steps . The framing of Friendly Societies in such a

    manner as that women can be participators in their benefits requires special consideration , which must be deferred to a future number .

    The reason of this is evident from the following anecdote . In the month of June lastwe happened to be staying in a factory town

    , where women were largely employed . Hearing some tall ? : of a new Friendly Society for menabout -which a grocer in the town

    , was taking much interest , we went to his shoj ) to inquire details . We found that he had just received the printed provisions of the

    Act from London , and was carefully drawing up the regulations in accordance with them . We asked him why he did not include

    women among the members , since , in a town whose staple industry was conducted almost entirely by themthey must be considered as

    _indejDendent members of the working , class , and it was very desirable that they should be able to appropriate part of their earnings

    to a provision for sickness . " Oh , " said the grocer , _" we cannot have women in our Friendly Societies under the same rules as the

    men ; why , they are so different—they would be always on our list of payments . A man does not stay away from his work unless he

    has a fever or a broken leg ; but if a mother is knocked up with so sitting she gets zip all { _throivn night _ivith out of a wor side 7 c' bab " y , she _cavtt go to the factory , and

    The grocer thus pointed out in vernacular the distinctions which exist between men and women as subjects for assurance . We will

    add that the balance does not invariably turn against the latter . Women live rather longeron the averagethan menthough they

    are more liable to be " thrown , out of work , . " We shall , return to this subjectand endeavor to suggest the practical rules deducible

    , from these facts .

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    112 A Year's Experience.

    112 A YEAR ' S EXPERIENCE .

    Xvii.—A Year's Experience Ijnt Woman's W...

    XVII . —A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE _IJNT WOMAN ' S WORK . A PAPER HEAD AT THE _MEETING OF THE _ASSOCIATION FOE THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE , GLASGOW , 1860 .

    W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...

    w Nearly a year has now passed since , through the means of the last meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science

    public attention in England was largely drawn to the subject of , female industry . Nor was it in England alone that this vexed

    question came under discussion ; France also contributed her

    thoughts j and two elaborate articles in the R 6 vue des deux Mondes ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/40/