Louisville Equal Rights Association Minute Book, 1889 May 3 (pt. 3)
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Louisville Equal Rights Association Minute Book, 1889 May 3 (pt. 3)
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The Filson Historical Society Special Collections
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Mss BJ L894
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be equal advantages, equal freedom, equal pay for equal work, and the same standard of purity for both sexes; and anything short of that is injustice.
The article was received with much approval, and the Sec'y was instructed to send it to the “Woman's Journal” for publication.
Next followed the reading of some facts gleaned from a recent report by [U.S.] Commissioner of Labor, Carroll D. Wright. -
Women are extensively employed in 342 wage-earning occupations. Their average age is 22 years, 7 months. The bulk of the 17,247 women interviewed were between the ages of 18 & 20. The great majority marry early in life, and this fact, employers say, justifies them in paying to women lower wages than to men. 14,554 were ingood health, which was thought to argue well for the sanitary conditions of American work-shops.
The exercises were concluded by reading from the “Woman's Lesson,” showing the injustice done to a married woman by our property laws, as now administered.
The meeting was the adjourned.
be equal advantages, equal freedom, equal pay for equal work, and the same standard of purity for both sexes; and anything short of that is injustice.
The article was received with much approval, and the Sec'y was instructed to send it to the “Woman's Journal” for publication.
Next followed the reading of some facts gleaned from a recent report by [U.S.] Commissioner of Labor, Carroll D. Wright. -
Women are extensively employed in 342 wage-earning occupations. Their average age is 22 years, 7 months. The bulk of the 17,247 women interviewed were between the ages of 18 & 20. The great majority marry early in life, and this fact, employers say, justifies them in paying to women lower wages than to men. 14,554 were ingood health, which was thought to argue well for the sanitary conditions of American work-shops.
The exercises were concluded by reading from the “Woman's Lesson,” showing the injustice done to a married woman by our property laws, as now administered.
The meeting was the adjourned.
Citation
Louisville Equal Rights Association, “Louisville Equal Rights Association Minute Book, 1889 May 3 (pt. 3),” The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects, accessed April 19, 2024, https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/items/show/841.