The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

626 WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR DAUGHTERS?
the women of America, have largely increased the number
of remunerative employments they are permitted to enter.
When Harriet Martineau visited America in 1840, she found
but seven employments open to women. At the present
time, according to Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Chief of the
National Bureau of the Statistics of Labor, there are about
three hundred and fifty industrial occupations open to
women.
And yet it is true, however, that women have received
very little special industrial training to fit them for the
work they are doing, or for a higher kind of work which
will give them better pay. Perhaps almost the same may
be said concerning the technical training of men in this
country.
I cannot leave this topic of women's industrial training,
without speaking of our culpability in neglecting to give our
daughters some knowledge of business affairs. With utter
indifference on our part, they are allowed to grow to womanhood unfamiliar with the most ordinary forms of business
transactions, - how to make oat bills, and to give receipts;
how to draw bank-checks; how to make notes, and what are
the cautions to be observed concerning them; what is the
best method of transmitting funds to a distance, whether by
postal orders or bank drafts; what are safe rates of interest;
how to purchase a life annuity, or effect an insurance on life
or property, and so on.
If property is to pass into their possession, our daughters
certainly need to know much more than this, that they
may be able to manage it with wisdom, or even to retain it
securely. They need to know what are the elements of
finanoial security; what may be considered safe investments; how to rent, improve, or sell property; what margin of property above the amount of the loan should be