Christian sociology; Labor -- United States; Labor movement -- United States; Working class -- United States
Before the great war began there was in the United States about
one woman worker for every five men. This number has been greatly
increased. Of the three hundred specific occupations the census of
1900 enumerated there were only two occupations in which women were
not engaged in some capacity. The census of 1910 gives a larger number
of occupations, and not one in which women are not employed. Women are
on the street-car lines and are line women and telegraphers, riveters,
blacksmiths, steam-boiler makers, brass workers, and foundry workers.
In fact, no work seems too hard or too heavy for some woman to make
a success of it. From the time of the invention of the cotton-gin,
which brought more women into the world of industry than any other one
machine, to the present day we have the story of women and men gaining
larger visions, receiving better wages, and together making the world a
more habitable place for us all.
=Justice to Women Workers.= It would be impossible for us to manage
business as we do to-day without the efficient help of secretaries,
stenographers, telegraph-operators, and other office assistants, nearly
all of whom are women. The question arises as to what treatment a woman
should receive. For some reason, when a woman does a piece of work, no
matter how well it is done, or howsoever efficient she becomes, we have
a feeling that she should receive less pay for the same work than a man
would receive. There are many reasons why women are suffering from this
injustice. One arises from the conditions which bring a large number of
women into industry.
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