ABSTRACT
The admission of women into industry under the care and protection of their relatives would be a step of the greatest importance; but would not meet the necessities of the class that really stands most in need of it. It is women having no relatives to support or care for them, that society is most urgently called upon to admit into the industrial ranks. In United States of America, the status of women of the middle ranks is higher; the difference being attributable partly to the influence of literary society, which, in the absence of a landed aristocracy, gives a tone at least to the northeastern States of the Union. The higher employments to which women of the middle classes may ultimately claim admission, may be arranged as: professions and offices, the duties of which are stated, and the income a fixed salary; partnership; and business and trade in general, exposed to competition and fluctuation.
