"Education is considered the peculiar business of women; perhaps for that very reason it is one of the worst-paid business in the world; the salaries of men who engage in it are double those of women, who do better work and more of it."
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Novelists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesLabor activistsWomen activists from the United StatesChristian socialists
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The National exposition souvenir: What America owes to women, Chapter 43 "Queens of the Shop, the Workroom and the Tenement", page 436
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Katharine Pearson Woods
Katharine Pearson Woods (January 28, 1853-February 19, 1923) was an American novelist, labor activist, and advocate of Christian socialism.
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