The Wisconsin Journal of Education, 1859, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The Wisconsin Journal of Education, 1859, Vol. 3: The Organ of the State Teachers' Association, and of the Department of Public InstructionBut if the reasons I have presented are insufficient to affect the popular mind favorably toward the employment of female teachers, there are other considerations that may be urged. It is more economical. I do not pro pose to discuss the right involved in this suggestion, whether for the same work females should receive the same wages as males. As an abstract question I should answer, under the same conditions, yes. But in no case are the conditions the same. The man who has to pay three dollars per week for board, can not afi'ord to work for the same wages as one who pays but half that sum. The necessities of the laborer are an element proper to be considered in determining wages. Now as between the male and the female teach er, the latter can afi'ord to work for less wages than the former. For society imposes upon man certain pecuniary obligations from which woman is free. If a gentleman desires the company of a lady at a ride, a lecture, a concert, or other entertainment, he must pay the ex penses of both. In paying his addresses to a lady, it is customary, I be lieve, for the gentleman to do the journeying to and fro, he must bestow the gifts, and pay the person, and there his outlay has butjnst begun, and that of the lady is ended. If this condition does not establish the rightful moral claim of man to higher wages than woman for the same work, it does what is practically the same thing, it makes it possible for woman to work for less wages than man can, whereby she becomes his competitor under that condition, and she should not complain of a result determined by conditions of peculiar advantage to her sex.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.