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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
under fifteen years of age should not be allowed.*
That the employment of girls of other ages — and women generally — at employments unsuited to their sex should not be suffered (such employments being determined by a council of salubrity, in France, composed of those most eminently fit for their high commission).!
That, in such employments as women should be admitted to, they should be permitted a “periodical absence,” without pecuniary loss, for such time as might be just and necessary.
That in employments where women should be admitted, and which require high degrees of mental concentration, with physical energy, additional vacations of sufficient extent should be the right of the employee.
* Prof. Clarke has summed it up tersely when he says, “If excessive labor, either mental or physical, is imposed upon children, male or female, their development will in some way he checked.” — Op. cit. p. 41. t See appendix.