The Economic Journal : the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society
The Economic Journal : the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society
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an hour. . . . "The men in the same factory were having lOd., 1^., and Is. 2d. per hour; the women doing in most cases absolutely identical work." Many instances are given of women working for Government or in "con- trolled " establishments who are receiving wages insufficient to maintain them in efficiency — evidently (we infer) below the standard of men's wages.
It cannot be maintained that the unequal treatment of women is justified by their inability to acquire skill or by the inferiority o...f their work. Those who make the first objection can never have heard Miss Marie Hall play the violin or Miss Fanny Davies the piano. *' They can hardly even have seen a woman dancing on the tight-rope." As to the alleged in- feriority of women's work, evidence to the contrary is furnished in abundance by the experience of munitions work. For instance.
Sir William Beardmore, in his presidential address to the Iron and Steel Institute, 1916, recording the experience of his own firm, adduces cases in which "these girls in all cases produced more than double that by thoroughly trained mechanics — mem- bers of Trade Unions— working the same machines under the same conditions." "In the turning of the^hell body the actual output by girls, with the same machines and working under exactly the same conditions and for an equal number of hours, was quite double that by trained mechanics." Nor can the unequal remuneration of women workers be justified by the allegation that they have homes provided by their parents and are working for "pocket-money wages." "There may be here and there a few young women who are working under these conditions, but it is not true of the mass." The recent researches made by the Fabian Women's Groups show that out of 2,410 cases of wage-earning women two-thirds ar© not only Digitized by y Google J I 406 TBS BCOKCWIO JOITENAL entirely self-supporting, but have others t themselves.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
an hour. . . . "The men in the same factory were having lOd., 1^., and Is. 2d. per hour; the women doing in most cases absolutely identical work." Many instances are given of women working for Government or in "con- trolled " establishments who are receiving wages insufficient to maintain them in efficiency — evidently (we infer) below the standard of men's wages.
It cannot be maintained that the unequal treatment of women is justified by their inability to acquire skill or by the inferiority o...f their work. Those who make the first objection can never have heard Miss Marie Hall play the violin or Miss Fanny Davies the piano. *' They can hardly even have seen a woman dancing on the tight-rope." As to the alleged in- feriority of women's work, evidence to the contrary is furnished in abundance by the experience of munitions work. For instance.
Sir William Beardmore, in his presidential address to the Iron and Steel Institute, 1916, recording the experience of his own firm, adduces cases in which "these girls in all cases produced more than double that by thoroughly trained mechanics — mem- bers of Trade Unions— working the same machines under the same conditions." "In the turning of the^hell body the actual output by girls, with the same machines and working under exactly the same conditions and for an equal number of hours, was quite double that by trained mechanics." Nor can the unequal remuneration of women workers be justified by the allegation that they have homes provided by their parents and are working for "pocket-money wages." "There may be here and there a few young women who are working under these conditions, but it is not true of the mass." The recent researches made by the Fabian Women's Groups show that out of 2,410 cases of wage-earning women two-thirds ar© not only Digitized by y Google J I 406 TBS BCOKCWIO JOITENAL entirely self-supporting, but have others t themselves.
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