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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Better Chance Cheap Earnings Employment Field Good Good Man He Her Herself Man More Must Order Rated Same She Show Skilled Steady Than Trustworthy A Good Man

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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Additional Any Below Bodies Body Difficulty Downward Fatal Forever Hanging Just Level Maintain Means Other Overcome Own Pressure Rates Reasonable Skirts Struggle Wages Workers

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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Agitation Full Granted Nation Pause Political Political Power Position Power Responsibility Until Women

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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Any Constant Field Higher Industry Menace Perceived See Standard Standards Stay Too Trade Two Wages Without Women Women Are Work

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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Body Economic Garment Hand Other Presence Trades Undoubtedly Weak Weakness Young

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On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Abroad Awarded Brothers Cut Defend Hand Her Heritage Home Interests Off Other Polls Power Protection She Sisters

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Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Conditions Effort Industrial Level Life Maintain May Order Place Pull Reasonable Same Themselves Together Women

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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: About Affecting Commerce Country Directly Fact Field Form Industrial Legislation Manufacture Now Opened Vast Very Women

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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: Attitude Been Complete Generations Hence Revolution Space Toward Trades Two Within Women Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 12th, 1859

Died: February 17th, 1932

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