In certain kinds of work, where women do piece-work along with men, it is found that they get as high wages as men for the same quantity of work.
The recent report upon Textile Industries establishes this fact so far as those trades are concerned.

But this is not always, perhaps not in the majority of instances, the case.

Women-workers do not, in many cases, receive the same wages which would be paid to men for doing the same work.

Why is this?
It is sometimes described as an unfair advantage taken of women because they are women.

There is a male prejudice, it is urged, against women-workers, which prevents employers from paying them the wages they could and would pay to men.
Now this contention, so far as it refers to a sentimental bias, is not tenable.