The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Women In The Professions.
Progress of the Weaker Sex in law. m
Nlnity and Medicine.

: tHe professions; therefore they reouirf
e a professional training. and therefore
/ they demand entrance to the profession
: al schools Many Of the law and mod
cal schools of the United States are omen
- women on the same terms rs To men.
ana at the majority of the one hundred
ana twenty-five theological seminaries
exclusive Of the Roman Catholic. oppor-
tumties OF study similar to those eDioyed
Q! the young men are afforded them
'nough they may be neither matriculat
ec nor receive degree. The number
oI women practicing law is far greater
III the Western States than i'm the Fast
erh and large proportion of the
schools, especially of those connected
win the State universities. are free To
mem. . the three law-schools in New
England only one is open to both sexes
That OF the Boston University. The
! schooI has, however, | am informed. not
YET graduated woman. The women of
the East who desire to read Kent and Ia
learn forms Of procedure prefer to oh
tam Il legal education in the more pri .
waite advantages of LAWYERS office.
IN the chaotic state Of ecclesiastical
OPINION regarding women's preaching.
but few have been admitted either 10
the pulpit or to the theological semina-
ry. Although the number has greatly
increased in the last decade. in 1879 of
fo,o'4 clergymen, only siXtv-seven were
women. The Methodist and Univer-
Sallst churches have probably proved
more cordial IN granting clerical privi-
leges to women than the churches Of
other leading denominations. YET the
general conference of the former body.
al CINCINNATI in 1880 refused to take n +,
positive position in reference to the
question. Woman, however. are occu- !
pylng several Methodist pulpits. though :
without official Appreciation The Uni q
versalist church has ordained several 1
women, who are preaching not only in
the West, but also in the conservative /. p
states OF the East. Three are stationed Il
n as many OF the country towns of !;
Maine. In the Congregational and Bap :,
LIST denominations the cases Of ordina- +,
ION and installation Of women are rare.
ven if a single one has occurred. The b.
ointment of Unitarians on the question Il
; more akin to the Universalist position. 1t
The opinion Of a church regarding the b'
PREACHING Of women indicates its prac- ~
Ice in reference to admitting women to :,
he full privileges Of the divinity -
chools. At the theological department
+ the Boston University, under the
supervision Of the Methodists, q woman
as been a member Of nearly every
lass since it, establishments Lawrence a
University Of Canton, n. Y. con- u
'olled by Universalists, is onen to m
omen on the same terms as to men, W
nd two graduated at its last com l .
lencement. For many years women III
ave attended the lectures Of Prof. al
ark at Andover, though the Seminary w
ives no diploma to them. eH
10 the practice Of medicine a large WI
lumber Of women turn than enter both ny
lie legal profession and the clerical. "
he first medical school for women ever W. W.
tahlfshed-the Female Medical Edu- ~
.tional sOciety-was organized in Bos- :, -
n in November, 1913 For thirty ~ =
,ars, in both Europe and the United VI
ates, measures for giving woman a an
CROUCH training in medicine have a"
en pushed very vigorously. AT times IN
e contest between those favoring and lid
ose opposing their practice Of the ~
allng art has been waged with the ~,
tterness of the anti-slavery struggle. "a -
he general result, however, has been "
victory for the women. In Europe w
e not less than % schools of high a."
tnding, in which they can receive a Pii;'
edical education, the large majority pm
which have been either opened to :,
EN- or established within the last ten w.
II, 1Io ,F IL
men are forbidden by social customs iiA
IN receiving the attendance Ct male ~
ysicians at their homes, several ~
.cGis have formed since 1867 for III.
0rding women the opportunity of OBJ ~ ~
ng a regular medical training. OF ~
: lightweight medical schools in the 10
lited States a considerable proportion I'm IN
nit women on the same terms as men.
G more important of these schools are 'ii9
oman's Medical college Of the New i
rk Infrmarv the Female Medical 1oS
llege of Philadelphia, the department ou -
medicine and surgery Of Michigan
iversity, the Woman's Hospital Med w. 10
College, Of Chicago, and the school
Medicine Of Boston University. Their Ie
men graduates, in proportion to their La La
II, are few, yet increase each year. na iia
cOrding to the census Of 1870 there I 70
e in the United States 62,383 ply ne
ans and surgeons, Of whom 525 were In In
men. ~"
from this survey ofrecent movements 1Ie
education several differences ~
80 thoran,b and 'li,'t toJo 49, o exp
% ion ~ -, r,orbons ~ con- any
ifptly, hut one fully equal in breadth 80 ~
thor0ughness. At home, Vassar, ''"I
18th, and other colleges of high rank C.. e..
established exclusively for their 40
ming; Michigan University, Oberlin,
10, college, are as open to them as to
ir brothers, and the vast resources of T.
oldest and wealthiest colleges are and
irs III the annex Private instruc- tho
/ of all kinds is as free to them as to ono
4, and opportunities of professional Sna
ming are abundant. Abroad the En- oro
b universities and the German are Al
sing to make sex the hinge upon bot,
oh accession to their privileges turn. Ma
ondly, women Gas body are as ca Mi
lie as men of receiving, profting by, Ten
using the highest intellectual train min
Wherever women have been taaT
light in school or college into fair Co.
petition with men it has been dem HaT
rated that they are capsable ofavail- Nor
themselves of the highest education I.Jat
opportunities. And thirdly, the lib mt
tendency Of the age, and the excel la6o
e Of the results 50 far won in the no
er education Of women, form ba- ETnr
f the assurance that before the open NJ
II the next century much larger nam
'rity of the colleges and professional Mai
OILS will be open TO women on the the
: terms as to men. Not only will s;t;o
colleges and new professional NAV
OILS for them be formed, but also -,
ervative professional schools, as the and
ward Medical School, which seems bv 7