Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their FutureCampbell, Helen
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Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen
Women -- Employment -- United States
Women-workers, percentage of, in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, New York,
Lowell, Manchester, Wilmington, Del., 108, 109;
according to States, 110;
of Boston, 114, 116;
industries open to, in large cities, 124;
development of her intelligence necessary, 251;
in German mines, 11;
why their wages are less than men's, 14;
their trades highly localized, 19;
entrance into trades barred by men, 20;
increase of, in the United States, 98;
total numbers of, in the United States, in 1860, 103;
in 1870, 105;
in 1880, 105;
occupations according to Census of 1880, 106.
Woollen and cotton industries, 98, 108.
Working-girls' clubs, conditions of, 257.
Working-Woman's Journal, 255.
Working-Women's Protective Union, 255.
Working-Women's Society of New York, its aims, 256.
Worsted and woollen trades, women and children in, 108.
Wright, Carroll D., 115.
Wyoming, working-women in, 110.
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