Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — Occupations Open to Women. [ARTICLE]

Occupations Open to Women.

Within the last fifteen years schools have sprung up all over the country for the education of women—education both of a general and a special nature —and now a girl chooses a vocation and fits herself for it with as pinch care as her brother gives to the preparation fop. his life-work. But these, I believe, are in the main what may be called “new occupations.” Fifty years ago there were but seven forms of employment open to women—teaching, needlework, work in cottonmills, keeping boarders, type-setting, book-binding and household service. Today there is not a profession or calling, from the ministry, medicine and law to boot-blacking, harboring and streetcleaning, In which women are not engaged and earning good wages.—Woman’s Home Companion.