The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-08
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TO WO1EN.

implies by this assertion, the position
of American women strikes with as
constituent all foreigners who travel in
the states, for the American women
are on an equality with men.
In Chicago, for instance, down in the
city there stands an immense and very
fine building, and that is the Woman
Temple. At the exposition there in 1893
one of the finest structures in the fair
grounds was the Women's building,
designed and built by a woman. In the
congresses and at the exposition gem
+ orally woman took an equally proml-
nent part with man.
! American women talk radically on all
subjects, even to the changes of the
laws and emancipation. In order to
/ get an adequate idea of the conditions
! Of American professional women in
1895, we have to consider the high state
of education they have attained to to-
day, the professions and occupations
open to them and their political status.
In America there are over 100 first
class colleges and universities entirely
open to women. Some, like Vassar,
Wellesley, Smith and Bryn Mawr, are
for women exclusively, and others are
mixed. Harvard, the oldest of all.
seems to stand alone in its refusal to
recognize officially the eligibility OF
women to compete on par with men.
Every kIlOWA pIOlSSSlOuy OCCupo NAO4a
and trade seems now to be open to
women in America. Apparently the
medical profession was the first sought
by women, and now more than 1000
women practitioners Of the healing art
are scattered over the states and work
on an equal footing with the men. The
profession of theology has attracted
fewer women, and it has been less easy
for them tc obtain recognition as
q CT IN - h11T the fhR0s
logical schools of the Unitarian and
Methodist Episcopal churches ADMIT
women students. There are ordained
women preachers in the Baptist, Con-
gregational, Universalist, Unitarian.
Christian" Methodist and Primitive
Methodist denominations, and over 800
women preachers among the Society OF
Friends. There are about ZOO women
preachers and pastors in tie United
States today.
The legal profession was the last of
the three so-called learned professions
to be opened to women in Ameri a, not
because of reluctance on the part OF
the courts, but because women did not
so easily apply for admission. There
are now not less than eleven law
schools open to women, and twenty
i've states ana territories admit women
to the bar. There are over 200 women
lawyers in America, nine Of whom are
admitted to practice before the SUI
preme Court of the United States.
The women Of Wyoming have full
suffrage, and municipal suffrage IS
granted women in Kansas. In twenty
eight more states they have right to
vote upon school matters, and there are
at least twenty-nine out of a total of
forty-eight states where women enjoy
some form of suffrage.
The political conditions of Ameri-
can woman today may be briefly
summed up thus: While she is not yet
admitted to the full exercise of politi-
cal rights except in Wyoming, she
possesses very generally some right to
vote on local matters, and to hold
many executive offices; she, in all
walks of life, is considered nearly, if
not entirely, the equal of man, and in
many cases his superior. She is on a
par with him in respect to freedom to
labor and earn money; she may vote,
hold office, do business, enter upon. any
profession as the social equal of man,
enjoying respectful consideration and
chivalrous treatment. Above all, she
is a good wife and housekeeper, and a
most devoted mother, in spite of all
her outside ocations.-Queen.