ABSTRACT
In the industry at present open to woman, she in the first few years of her employment has acquired all the skill and experience she will ever have need for; and she is left without a motive to further improvement. That women in many departments of industry should have so little scope for the development of trustworthiness of character and the other tried qualities of mature life, must leave them both socially and individually in the lowest scale. A few appointments of women of the industrial ranks to situations of trust and management, would give encouragement to the whole class. If women of the middle ranks were admitted into industry, the young woman of the labouring classes would in their presence feel still greater security and independence; and would be encouraged by their example and companionship to improve her standard of the comfort and the propriety.
