follow along so
fast in the rear. I have no fear but that women will stand a fair chance
with men in the industries of the world, when they once get a free and
open way into them, and learn to apply scientific principles as men do.
Fine manipulation in a hand is fast coming to be as valuable a quality
as strength.

To secure the changes that all wise or good feeling must desire for
women, many things are needed; and as I have said, first of all, we need
organization in domestic work, in order to reduce the quantity, to save
waste in materials, and to develop a better quality of work, by making
the different departments into trades or skilled industries--thus we
must put our cooking under the care of chemists and physiologists, and
in a variety of ways provide work for wives and daughters suited to
their intelligence, and relieved of coarse drudgery. We need women
physicians, employed by the year, whose duty and interest it will be to
keep the family in health, and thus avoid the occasions for curing them
when they are ill; and here is the safeguard for our girls--a person
familiar with both the home life and school life of the children, and
whose interest would forbid her to yield either to the weak affection of
the mother, or the thoughtless ambition of the teacher. The familiar
conversations that would naturally spring up between competent women
physicians on the one side, and mothers, children, and cooks on the
other, would contribute vastly to the improved diet and general sanitary
habits of the family; and open a way to more rapid progress in
determining the relation between different varieties of food and
peculiarities in the mental and physical powers and appetites. We need
creditable wages, given in employments for women other than teaching, in
order to save our schools from being the receptacle of all women who
have occasion to earn money. We need some half-time system in our
schools, to provide for the pupils who have less health or less time;
and also to secure for them teachers from a higher class of families,
who find all-day work uncomfortably exhausting or confining. We need to
raise the scale of feminine wages, in order to invite the application of
time-saving inventions in women's work, as they are now employed in
men's work. We need a wider range of work for women.

As a means to all this we need, and as the result of all of it we shall
get, a recognition of feminine methods and standards, as well as