Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-16
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Woman's Journal.
In the home the woman's work il a.
necessary a. the mans and as hard,
sometimes harder. Frequently she does
not handle as much money as the girl
who does her kitchen work, nor as much
as the man who keeps the stable; while
the husband has plenty.
As teacher, does it pay to be q wo-
man? Let New York answer for the
eastern states, Indiana for the central,
and Iowa for the western. In New York,
IN grade where man receives $500
per year, woman receives $500. Does
it pay her to lose $500 a year for the
circumstance of being a woman? In
Indiana, in country districts, man gets
from forty cents-to 81 per month more
than does woman for the same grace;
in town from $40 to $50, and in cities
Tram 81 to $113 more. Iowa pays a
woman an average Of only one half as
much as man, while the average grade
Of the women's certificates is higher than
the mems.
Does 1t pay to be a woman? The
ruling of the different departments at
Washington give another emphatic mega
tive. In the treasury department the
committee for re-counting and sealing
damaged money and bonds consist Of
two gentlemen, each receiving $500 a
year, and one lady, who receives 81, 200.
In the office of comptroller, at one time,
man clerk became SO dissipated that he
was removed to an inebriate asylum. A
lady In the s:me room, ia addition to
her own duties, performed the work of
the absent clerk, and her salary was 5000
a year. The $1,000 she earned at the
other desk, was paid to the drunkard In
whose name she earned it. In one in
stance lady was placed at an 81, 800
desk just vacated by man. For 5000
she performed her duties as promptly
and correctly as he had performed his.
She was afterwards awarded 81, 200, but
it cost her 5000 a year to be woman.
The superintendent Of the quartermaster
generals office is lady. Her duties
are the same as those of the head of any
other bureau; yet she is paid only ST.
zoo, the same as the messenger receives
who only carries papers. When there
are superhuOus members in the interna-
tional revenue bureau, three women to
one man are always dismissed, although
the men are much more expensive, and
greatly exceed in number the women.
One Of the most radical advocates of
economy recently dismissed woman
whose salary was 5000 a year, and gave
her position to a man, paying him ST.
600. The woman was not dismissed be-
cause she did not do her work we'll, but
because there was not work enough for
the men. Did it pay her to be a woman
While the wol.an PASS the highest ex-
aminations with honor, it is the men,
with rarely an exception, who pass into
the highest places. The man who passes
an examination cannot receive less than
$l,2OO per year, nor woman more than
5000. A high appointing officer of the
treasury once said to two ladies'. ''You
were foolish to expect 1900 position
because you passed the examination of
that classp'
A woman's fare when travelling is as
high as mans. She does not get her
fuel or her beefsteak for less. Her tele-
grams do not 60 any cheaper; her mer-
chant and grocer do not reduce prices
for her; she pays two cents for two DOS
tai ca1de, and four cents for two letter
stamps; there are as many hours in her
working day as in his; and for the same
hours and same toll she receives only
one half "a much as he does when he re-
ceives bis lowest.
In view of all these points does it pay
financially to be woman?