Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1905 — Why Women’s Wages are Low. [ARTICLE]

Why Women’s Wages are Low.

Rather an amusing reason is given by Anna B. Doughten as to why young girls’ wages still remain so much lower than young men’s, when the same work is accomplished and in quite as good a manner. “Seldom," she says, “does a girl work with any idea of permaivency, and often the brighter and mare capable she is the sooner does some young man find that her qualifications are just what he wants in a wife.’ Indeed, it is a fact,’’ says the philosopher, “that many employers haye found E useless to train good looking, capable girls in any special lines, for just when they are fitted for the required dutlesand the accompanving higher salary, off they go.” Miss Doughten is in a position to discuss the subject, as she is social secretary in one of the publishing houses in Am. 2 k.^—Social ServP 0