Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
An unexpected pleasure was a brief address by Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi,
a veteran suffragist and prominent physician of New York, who was
attending the convention of the American Medical Association. She
based her argument for equal suffrage on the injustice practiced
toward women physicians when they seek the opportunity for hospital
practice. Mrs. F. W. Hunt, wife of the Governor of Idaho, testified to
the good results of woman suffrage in that State for the past five
years. Others who gave addresses were the Rev. Alice Ball Loomis
(Wis.), The Feminine Doctor in Society; Mrs. Lydia Phillips Williams,
president of the Minnesota Federation of Clubs, Growth and Greetings;
Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Ill.), For the Sake of the Child; Miss
Frances Griffin (Ala.), A Southern Tour; the Rev. Olympia Brown
(Wis.), The Tabooed Trio; Mrs. Annie L. Digges (Kas.), The Duty of the
Hour; Miss Laura A. Gregg (Neb.), Who Will Defend the Flag?; the Rev.
Celia Parker Woolley (Ill.), Woman's Worth in the Community; the
Rev. William B. Riley (Minn.), Woman's Rights and Political
Righteousness.[12]
An inadequate newspaper account of the very able address of Miss Gail
Laughlin (N. Y.), on The Industrial Laggard, said:
Miss Laughlin described the nineteenth as the industrial century
of which the factory was a notable product and co-operation the
spirit. Men were trained to do one thing well and by division of
labor the maximum result was attained with the minimum
expenditure of labor and capital. This principal of division of
labor has been applied everywhere except in the household, the
field which especially concerns women. Household labor is outside
the current of industrial progress. It is not even recognized as
an industrial problem because it is not a wealth-producing
industry. Students of economics will sometime understand that the
industries which consume wealth should receive attention as well
as those which produce it. Business principles are not applied to
the domestic service problem. There are no business hours. The
person is hired, not the labor. One woman described the
situation: "If you have a girl, you want her, no matter at what
time." There is no standard of work and the result is confusion
worse confounded. The servant's goings-out and comings-in are
watched and she has no hours to herself. Is it any wonder that so
many women prefer to go into factory life at less pay but where
they can have some hours of their own?
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