Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-01-19
Equal Pay For Equal Work.

world than consistency. It is certainly 'jewel.
If woman does the self-same work a man does,
why not pay her the same price for doing it? Why
pay man teacher $1,000 year and woman 5000
or 500 for the same work? Why is a man in the
treasury department of Washington entitled to
$500 and woman In the same room doing the
same work and working the same number OF hours
only 5000? have friend there who receives
that sum while the men are paid just $500 more
Laura Dainty, the popular actress, in an inter-
view a few months ago, stated that she had worked
in factories, taught school, and been employed in
various other ways, but she had never received
equal pay with men until she became an actress.
Do not think that | am advocating studying for the
stage, for | am not. | only want to state few
plain facts and find solution for these things. If
women could band themselves together and put
stop to this injustice, they would not only benefit
themselves but the world at large. The trouble is
there are so many thousands who are hungry and
homeless, who feel compelled to accept half loaf
if they cannot get whole one, to keep them from
starvation and to give them place of shelter.
Look at the white slave girls of Chicago and other
cities. To be sure women are receiving better pay
than they were twenty-five years ago and more
avocations are open to them. Compare the wages
clerks. telegraph operators, ,typewEters stem
ographers and factory hands, and draw your own
conclusions. know bright young woman who
is thorough book-keeper, and who has worked
early and late, has even helped in the store in the
busy seasons, and has received the FARCE sum of Sc
per week. How much do you think GIRL could
save after paying her board and dressing herself on
that? How many men do you think would do the
Font That H.
had had little experience it would be different for
she might hope to better her condition in time. |
know OF merchants who have kept girls three
months or longer to learn cerking without paving
them cent, and at the expiration of that time
would dismiss them because they wanted wages
enough to pay their board. There are large and
fourshlng factories who pay their men employees
twice what they do their women. 1t has been said
over and over again that women were incompetent,
and that they hadn't the ability to do the same
work that men can do, but that theory is fast dis
appearing and they are proving beyond doubt to
reasonable people that they can do as thorough,
faithful work as men ever did. How many times
we hear it said: ''We hired woman because we
could get her cheaper, and as long as she can do
the same work you see it pays to do it, There
are many stores where the clerks are all girls ex
cept one or two men who do the heavy work.
sweeping cut, etc. One of the strangest things
to me is that some of these very women who are
loudes in their cry for equal pay for equal work."
do not favor the giving of the ballot to women
How on earth will she ever have justice until she
has right to protect herself with the ballot! The
Woman's Journal copies the following from the
Paoa, Kansas, Times, which is about as true q
thing as was ever written: 'Where woman is mans
equal in any avocation she should receive the same
pay When she take trip she pays cents per
mile, and when she stops at hotel she paws full
rates Ii she Is capable of teaching school, keep
ing DOCKS or anything else that man does, she
should receive exactly the same pay. When it be-
comes her duty to support family it costs her
Just as much as it does man. therefore give her
the same pay ~ Carrie M. Ashton, in Womans