The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-11-20
WOMAN IN AMERICA.
A Letter from Emily Faithful to she EdiA
tor OF the London Times.

A I,stterfroua Emily Faithful to she Edl-
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 profes-
sion for which they are qualified. L
confess that about year ago I 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 a
recognized degree) abound in America /;
in nearly every city found more than
one in excellent practice and repute; in
On6 hclAOL1luab-OA lLAC O4CAe ~ hOAAAelAA Af~o
received due ordination, though she is
still somewhat of rGrG avis. -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 tide 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
eminent offices at Washington. But
English women must not hastily arrive
at the conclusion that because of these
things their tIans-Atlanticsi sisters arefree
from all the distinctions of which they
complain. IL is true that there is no
class in America answering to our un-
fortunate governess class, but the wO-
men there as well as here are complain
ing of unequal pay; Sin fact, says my
friend Grace Greenwood-the talented
| Washington contributor of the New
York Times-''we live by sufferance. >
Take the treasury clerks for example
! (they were admitted by Salmon P. Chase
and Edwin NJ Stanton, thanks to the
eugencies of the civil war;. I was told
of Miss NJ. c., who does the work of {
81, 800 clerk for a salary of 5000. Mrs
L., performing duties for which a MAI
would receive 81, 300, being a woman
gratefully accepts half. In the interna
revenue there is a lady, who for min,
years has held a responsible position
and is, by the admission of more thai
one commissioner, the ablest clerk il
the department, yet she receives the al
most traditional female government pa!
of 5000, and has to see boys she ha
herself instructed in the simplest dutie
placed over her head. In the govern
ment printing Office $50 women are re
ceiving from 81 per day to 5000 pc
year. In New York, at the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the femal
superintendent, although her ability i
indisputable, receives a 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 t,
male and female teachers, which is fel
as a great injustice by American women
In short, do not fear to say that
found the demand on the other side 0
the Atlantic-for equal education, equ
al wages, equal opportunities, in a word
an equal chance in life-very mucl
like our own. And as for female suffer
age, I assure your readers that in Bos
ton, Philadelphia, and New York wa
surrounded by people who regarded i
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 seeing
which country shall first rate woman
work at its true value.