Excerpt from Conflicting Ideals: Two Sides of the Woman's Question

There is in the minds of many a fixed idea that women's work for wages is something quite new, something that came in with the industrial revolution, or with the movement called "Women's Rights." History shows this to be untrue. Although the records of women's employment are extremely meagre and unsatisfactory, there is yet sufficient evidence to show that women always have worked and even worked extremely hard, that they were employed in agriculture, and in most kinds of industrial occupation, usually, it is true, as assistants to the head of family, but also in quite a number of cases, as wage-earners for an employer. There remains a further consideration.

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