Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fifty Years of Association, Work Among Young Women 1866-1916: A History of Young Women's Christian Associations in the United States of America
Up to the middle of the nineteenth century the three chief occupations for women, gainful occupations they were termed, in spite of the meager remuneration for each, were: domestic service, where an American born girl helped in another person's home; teaching school, where the teacher boarded around from house to house in many country districts; and sewing, where the seamstress usually came to the house of her em ployer for a longer or Shorter time, or in the case of well to do families was a regular member of the house hold staff.
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