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Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages.
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869. 8vo (7.75” x 5.25”), publisher’s blue cloth, gilt spine. 372 pp. CONDITION: Covers good+, cloth chipped at head and foot of spine, rubbed at extremities; contents very good. First edition of the second work on female employment by Kentucky suffragette and pathbreaking researcher Virginia Penny. This is the second work on the subject by Penny (1836–1913), a women’s rights activist and representative to the American Equal Rights Association, preceded by her Employments of Women (Boston, 1863). Penny would be the first American woman (and indeed among the earliest worldwide) to systematically study female employment before such information was available within the U.S. Census. She sent out thousands of questionnaires by mail and conducted numerous interviews with employers, identifying over 500 different occupations in which women were employed, noting the gender gap in compensation for most. Unlike her previous work, which detailed those occupations, Think and Act treats female employment from a broader, more philosophical (and political) perspective. Advocating a “more systematic and harmonious organization of labor in our land,” Penny writes: “But now the barrier is being broken down, and woman is entering new avenues of honourable employment. Who does not rejoice that it is so?…If she meets with scorn and jeers, it will be from those whose opinions are worth nothing; not from the noble and the good…”
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