ABSTRACT
Desirable as it may be that married women should share with the unmarried in non-domestic industry, and that they should remain throughout life under the same influences as the other sex in their own rank; yet the many impediments to such a step seem entirely to preclude it. The admission of women to industry in the restricted form contemplated, would not only supply a permanent provision for the unmarried, and through them indirectly assimilate the culture of the whole female sex; but it would afford occupation in youth to the female sex generally. Women of the middle classes engaging themselves in youth in non-domestic industry, it may be necessary for them, on leaving that industry, and entering on the duties of married life, to devote a little time to supply any deficiency in their knowledge of domestic matters. The idea of entering into non-domestic industry is regarded by most women of the middle ranks with aversion.
