The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-09
MODERN WOVEN
Their work and Their Pay

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Jennie June in Baltimore American.
A number of eulogistic para
graphs have gone the rounds in
the newspapers in regard to women
engaged in exceptional occupations
at the Centennial; and among 9th
ers, of a woman engineer from Can
ada, who had charge of the steam
engine ia the Woman's Pavilion.
Doubtless many silly girls have en-
We'd this woman her position, which
seemed 60 exceptional and so full
Of honor and glory, as well as sub
stantial reward in the shape of sal
ary Last week, this same woman,
with tears in her eyes, and evidently
in desperate plight, applied to
several large establishments in this
city for employment, stating that
she had lost her position in Phila-
delphia through the "Woman's
Rights Women" According to her
story, Miss Anthony and others
questioned her about the amount
paid her per week by the WOman's
Centennial Commission, and finding
it not equal to the usual salary paid
a man for similar work, it was al
Iuded to in a speech made by Miss
Anthony, who thought women
should not set the example of re
ducing the wages Of women below
those of Tuen when they do mems
work. This incensed the commits
sion, who concluded the woman in
question had complained of her pay,
though she declares she did not,
but very reluctantly told what it
was, and she was summarily dis
charged, and after three weeks
hopeless looking for employment,
found herself reduced to her last
dollar. Of course, she had not
tried in those directions where
there always are chances-cooking
and homework.
A very curious war is being
waged against the married woman"
in schools, principally based on the
position held by the wife of one Of
the Professors of the Normal Col
lege in New York, in that institu-
ton. The lady in question is an
excellent teacher, but her husband
draws a salary of $4,000 per year
out of the educational Fund, and in
view of this fact it is considered
hardly just to the needy young wo
men waiting for positions that his
wife should draw an additional one,
especially as she has a young and
growing family demanding her care
and attention.
The case, in several of its aspects,
is considered a very aggravated one,
and petitions have been addressed
to the Board, one of which was
signed by all the other lady teach
ers in the college, but the obnox-
ious teacher persistently stands her
ground, and it is not questioned
but that she faithfully performs her
duty.
The case is one which it is rather
difficult for the Commissioners to
discuss, and one, all the merits of
which they can hardly be expected
to understand. There are cases in
which it would seem the grossest
injustice and cruelty to deprive a
woman of the only means by which
possibly she could maintain herself
and children. Il does not seem
right, either, to turn out trained
women because they are married,
and put raw girls in their places.
In every other department of indus
tial and professional life, marriage
makes no diference-husband and
wife may labor together.
But, on the other hand, there are
contingencies in the lives of married
women which render their contin-
ued presence in classroom and
chapel, before scholars and Com
missioners, a matter of somewhat
doubtful propriety. The whole
question is knotty one, and calls
for the presence of women upon the
School Board.