Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Women in the Field of Labor. [ARTICLE]

Women in the Field of Labor.

If by chance a woman does not become a homemaker, but enters a business pursuit, she meets unusual difficulty. The man has been in business for generations; the woman is a newcomer. Some employments are closed to her, either because they require the great physical strength or endurance, or because conventional considerations forbid. Americans look with disapproval upon women working In the fields, as they do in foreign countries; and yet there is much field work that is more Interesting, more wholesome and much more suitable than some of the work that American women are allowed to do —such, for example, as they do in laundries and In factories. Not only are women considered as Invaders in men’s fields, but also they suffer because men, invading fields once considered strictly feminine, are becoming dressmakers, cooks, laundry managers and clerks. Moreover, for the same work women received lower pay than men. Do not those difficulties constitute a compelling appeal to give women in their schooling every possible equipment for success? — Youth’s Companion.