As far as efforts to deal with:4e "equality movement?" among Women are concerned, Sweden stands. in the front rank among European countries. There is an enormous preponderance of women among the population, hence the need of providing possibilities for their self-support among single women e-came of pressing importance at an early date. The number of women in libraries, banks, and Government offices is largely on the m-crease, and in the teaching profession women form a_ constantly growing majority. So long ago os 1870 the Universities were thrown open to women, and they also obtained the right to practise as. doctors of medicine in the same year. Wages paid for female jabour still remain lower than men's, but some approach to levelling them has been made. Male agricultural labourers' wages have risen 284, and those paid to women servants in the country 400 per cent. respectively, during the last 50 years.
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