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A physician and advocate recounts her experiences promoting women's access to skilled trades and professions, blending autobiographical detail with practical argument. She describes offers of apprenticeships from sympathetic men, the reluctance of many women to undertake lengthy training because of marriage and social expectations, and the hardship that follows inadequate preparation. Arguing for systematic, equal training alongside men, she calls for attainable examples of ordinary women who pursue careers, criticizes partial measures like segregated facilities, and urges steady preparation and social change to enable sustained female participation in labor.

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Title: A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor"

Author: Marie E. Zakrzewska

Editor: Caroline Wells Healey Dall

Release date: February 1, 2004 [eBook #11270]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end.]

A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor;"

or,

A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
Late of Berlin, Prussia

Edited By Caroline H. Dall,

Author of "Woman's Right To Labor,"
"Historical Pictures Retouched," &c. &c.

                      "Whoso cures the plague,
Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech."

"And witness: she who did this thing was born
To do it; claims her license in her work."

Aurora Leigh.

1860.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
Walker, Wise, and Co.
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.