New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-03
SWITCHES or LECTURES
THE SOCIAL INEQUALITY OF THE SEXES.

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Mrs Coe delivered another lecture at the broadway
Tabernacle, Friday evening" occupying nearly an hour
and half with an able exposition of her theme. She
commenced with survey Of the business fields allotted to
man by social custom and the general peasurabeness OF
his pursuits. Competition was open to him, without any
restriction whatever. Not so with Woman. Society had
prescribed a narrow sphere for her, and labeled all
employment outside of it as masculine, And then;
when her work done, pay equal to that received
by her brother out Of the question Hall pay would
be the maximum of her hopes.
The lecturer said that she would take the gentle
men Of the audience, in imagination into their own
Kitchens and ask them to consider the state OF
things there. They would own that they were get
ting services for dollar two week much harder than
those of men in neighboring shops who were getting
eight or ten dollars per week 80 Of nea aiO as con- dd
not know that il pleasant to labor in the open
field with brow famed by the cooling and invgorating
breezes of heaven than in the close kitchen baz
inc fire And vet the female drudge in the kitchen
put of with less than half the wages paid to the mower
or the powman. She had known male teachers, in the
same school room with females living three four
times as much salary for doing less and easier labor
This unjust state of things was portrayed in glazing coors
by the lecturer.
occupations of life generally and il was urged that there
were scarcely any OF them which woman could not engage
in with good prospects as man. The spheres OF dviny
medicine and law were referred and the right and ab
ity OF females perform their duties argued AS to the
clerical po ssion she desired to know why woman could
preach pure gospel as her more privedged father
or brother
In this connection the lecturer alluded to the fact that
she herself a student of law. The newspapers
had stated the fact truly She tudying law Not that
she had made up her mind practice the legal profession,
were that pecunary necessity. But she had made up
her mind to the disposition OF the Courts as well as
the policy Of American law affecting women, and she
should long appear for examination She intended to
do what she could to demonstrate woman capabty for
that well other pursuits not deemed conraband
This announcement warmly received by the audience
glance the physical organization of the female,
compared with the male next taken, and capacity
insisted the only true test OF right Often the
uao in mr. than tha nan Aha than
WELD the the sedge EASILY than he, and she
should be free TO follow her inclination IL absurd to
deny her the privilege The indications of proyidenti
design in the female character were examined briefly and
these based argument for the natural rights of
woman, which was at clear and forcible On the
question of the mental equality of the her positions
wen maintained 1t was shown that the seeming in
equality owing 10 the superior educational advantages
provided for bows compared with girls and the efforts
expectation The daughter not expected to enter the
more intellectual fields Of labor therefore was
taken 10 prepare her for them.
The lecturer closed with hurried glance at the rights
of man, and ingenious argument instituted to show
that his legal rights often became womans social wrongs.
The advantage which often taken by the husband
of his unequal legal privileges denounced and ndi
cued very effectively. The positions assumed in the
lecture were, for the most part. well sustained.
The mental and moral characteristics OF Luereiia Mott,
Ernestne L. Rose, Paulina Wright Davis. Lucy Stone
Frances ID. Gage, Caroline NJ. Severance, Antonee L.
Brown and others alluded to as triumphant answer
the sneerng Of the opposeTs of the present movement in
behalf Of wOmans elevation 10 her rghtll social and
legal position.
AT times the enforcement of her lecturers views was
marked by decided beauty and cleaness Of thought and
delivery The entire lecture well received although
the audience owing TO the extreme stOrmaess OF the
weather composed mainly Of the whose legal and
social monopoe the chief ground OF complaint She
concluded auid hearty applause