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WOMAN IN AMERICA.
A Letter from Emily Faithful TO the Edi-
tor OF the London Times.

A Letter from Emily Faithful TO the Edi-
| tor OF the London Times.
Judging from the remarks made on
this subject at the Bradford and Nor
wich congresses, the idea is tolerably
prevalent that women in the United
States can adopt with ease any protes-
sion for which they are qualified. 1
confess that about year ago started
for the United States, on my inquiry
into the condition of the women and
children, fully imbued with some such
notion. Eight months tour through
America and conversations with the
presidents of Harvard, Cornell, and
Michigan universities, Professor Agas-
siz, Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. Oliver
| (chief of the Massachusetts, labor bu-
reau), Senator Sumner, DR.. Bellows,
Mrs. Stanton, Lucretia Mott, etc., fair
ly dispelled it. 1t is quite true that
| female doctors with more or less of q
recognized degree) abound in America
in nearly every city / found more than
one in excellent practice and repute; in
one denomination the clnrgywoman has
received dne ordination, though she is
still somewhat of a rdra dUiS. -Four or
five ladies have secured footing in the
legal profession, and there is scarcely a
newspaper staff in the United States
which does not include one or more as
bona .fde reporters, interviewers or crit
ic. Thousands, of course, find occupa'
ton in teaching and the usual indus
trial occupations, hundreds as watch
makers, printers, and telegraph clerks !;
others have obtained postmasterships,
so eagerly sought after in the United
States, and some have entered the gov
ernment offices at Washington. But
English women must not hastily arrive
at the conclusion that because OF these
things their transatlantic sisters arefree
from all the distractions OF which they
complain. 1t is true that there is no
class in America answering to our un-
fortunate governess class, but the wo-
men there as we'll as here are complain
ing of unequal pay; Sin fact, says my
friend Grace Greenwood-the talented
Washington contributor of the New
York Times live by sufferanoe.
Take the treasury clerks for example
(they we're admitted by Salmon P. Chase
and Edwin M. Stanton, thanks to the
exieencies of the civil war;. was told
of Miss M. O., who does the work OF
81, 900 clerk for salary of 5000. Mrs.
L., performing duties for which man
would receive 1900, being a woman,
gratefully accepts half. In the internal
revenue there is lady, who for nine
years has held responsible position
and is, by the admission of more than
one commissioner, the ablest clerk In
the department, yet she receives the al
most traditional female government pay
of 5000, and has to see boys she has
herself instructed in the simplest duties
placed over her head. In the govern
ment printing Office $50 women are re-
ceiviug from 81 per day to 5000 pei
year. In New York, at the WesterI
Union Telegraph Company, the female
superintendent, although her ability il
indisputable, receives considerabl,
lower salary than would be offered to
man under the same circumstances.
A warm discussion has been carried
on during the last few months abou
the inequality in the salaries paid tt
male and female teachers, which is fel
as great injustice by American women
In short, I do not fear to say that
found the demand on the other side o
the Atlantic-for equal education, equ
al wages, equal opportunities, in word
an equal chance in life-very mucl
like our own. And as for female suffer
age, assure your readers that in Bos
ton, Philadelphia, and New York wa
surrounded by people who regarded
with an aversion which would be CRATE
full to the hearts of Mr.. Bouverie, Mr.
Beresford Hope, and the bitterest Eng
lish opponent of that measure. In shor
there seems to be yet an opportunit
for an honorable rivalship, in seeinl
which country shall first rate woman
work at its true value.
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