LECTURER ON POLITICAL ECONOMY IN QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE AND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW It is not necessary to prove that women's wages are, as a rule, much under those of men. In the textile trades of Great Britain, which constitute the largest department of women's work, the average of women's wages is probably--in Scotland it is certainly--about ten shillings per week. This labour is not by any means unskilled, as anyone who has ever seen a spinning or weaving factory knows. Twenty shillings per week, however, is a low average for a man possessing any degree of skill whatever.…
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