Note 271 — Chapter IX · THE SOCIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE
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“I should like work where I could come in contact with more people who would be of help to me.”
“A young woman doing housework is shut out from all society, nor can she make any plans for pleasure or study, for her time is not her own.”
“No one seems to think a girl who works out good enough to associate with, except those who are in domestic service themselves.”
“Domestics never have a chance to go to school or study.”
A domestic employee recently went to a public library for a book. The attendant was about to give it to her, thinking from her manner and appearance that she was a teacher in a neighboring school; but when the question was asked and the answer given, “not a teacher, but a housemaid,” the book was withheld, as servants were required to bring recommendations.