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means new avenues of employment that are constantly being opened to them
may be collectively demonstrated, and it can be shown in which of these
they may share and excel or be most successful, and statistics may be
compiled showing the proportion of wages that women receive for their
share of labor performed equivalent to that of men, and other helpful
information and facts procured which are not easily ascertained by other
means.

The Departments of Machinery, Electricity, Transportation Exhibits,
Forestry, Mines and Metallurgy, Fish and Game, and Physical Culture were
not given representation by the Exposition Company on the group juries
appointed by the board of lady managers, and while it is undoubtedly
true that all of these fields have been invaded by women as assistant
workers, yet evolution and progress in these lines are necessarily slow
where their opportunities have not been commensurate with those of men
and more congenial employment is undoubtedly afforded in education, art,
liberal arts, manufactures, agriculture, horticulture, anthropology, and
social economy.

The "Special Rules and Regulations providing for an International Jury
and Governing the System of Making Awards," as applicable to the board
of lady managers, read as follows:

The total number of jurors in the international jury of awards
shall be approximately 2 per cent of the total number of
exhibitors, but not in excess of that number, and each nation
having fifty exhibitors or more shall be entitled to
representation on the jury. The number of jurors for each art or
industry, and for each nationality represented, shall, as far as
practicable, be proportional to the number of exhibitors and the
importance of the exhibits.

Of this selected body of international jurors, three graded
juries will be constituted: One, the general organization of
group juries; two, department juries; three, a superior jury.

Each group jury shall be composed of jurors and alternates.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall certify to the
board of lady managers the numbers of groups in which the
exhibits have been produced in whole, or in part, by female
labor; to each of the groups so certified the board of lady
managers may appoint one juror and one alternate to that juror;
such appointees, when confirmed, shall have the privileges and
be amenable to the regulations fo