Author's PerspectiveEvidence and ExplanationDocumentWorkingEvidence:Conditionsfor Womenand ChildrenExplanation: Working Conditions for Women and ChildrenThe journalist Florence Lucas Sanville worked in a Pennsylvania silk mill to gather facts forthe following article that appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1910.The length of a factory girl's work-day varies from a legal limit of eight hours in one ortwo advanced states to ten, eleven or twelve in less enlightened states where the law stillfails to protect its women from industrial exploitation the hours are regulated only by theneeds of the industry.In Pennsylvania...the law prescribes a limit of twelve hours daily and sixty hours weeklyfor women over eighteen; for girls under that age the law since January 1,1910 restrictsthis further to fifty-eight hours a week and an average of ten hours a day... But in thefactories scattered through the villages and small mining towns, in which great numbersof young girls are employed-such as are established by the silk industry–I found in aperiod of industrial expression that over a half of the mills were working ten and a half toeleven hours a day..Lena R., a thin-shouldered, anemic looking girl with a sweet, bright face. She lookedso young that I asked her age. "I'll be fourteen in the winter," she replied, and added thatshe had been doing night work since she was eleven.One of the most striking evils in the physical environment of women in the factories isthe lack of seats...Very few mills provide the seats which are required by PennsylvaniaLaw...The harmful effect of continuous standing upon young and growing girls is toowell established a fact to require any explanation... I could always detect the existenceof this rule but a glance at the stocking feet of the workers, and at the rows of discardedshoes... For after a few hours the strain upon the swollen feet becomes intolerable, andone girl after another discards her shoes.Another harsh and very common practice of employers is to cover the lower sashes ofthe windows with paint and to fasten them so that they cannot be raised in hot weather.This is done so the girls “don't waste time looking out."

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Author's PerspectiveEvidence and ExplanationDocumentWorkingEvidence:Conditionsfor Womenand ChildrenExplanation: Working Conditions for Women and ChildrenThe journalist Florence Lucas Sanville worked in a Pennsylvania silk mill to gather facts forthe following article that appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1910.The length of a factory girl's work-day varies from a legal limit of eight hours in one ortwo advanced states to ten, eleven or twelve in less enlightened states where the law stillfails to protect its women from industrial exploitation the hours are regulated only by theneeds of the industry.In Pennsylvania...the law prescribes a limit of twelve hours daily and sixty hours weeklyfor women over eighteen; for girls under that age the law since January 1,1910 restrictsthis further to fifty-eight hours a week and an average of ten hours a day... But in thefactories scattered through the villages and small mining towns, in which great numbersof young girls are employed-such as are established by the silk industry–I found in aperiod of industrial expression that over a half of the mills were working ten and a half toeleven hours a day..Lena R., a thin-shouldered, anemic looking girl with a sweet, bright face. She lookedso young that I asked her age. &#34;I'll be fourteen in the winter,&#34; she replied, and added thatshe had been doing night work since she was eleven.One of the most striking evils in the physical environment of women in the factories isthe lack of seats...Very few mills provide the seats which are required by PennsylvaniaLaw...The harmful effect of continuous standing upon young and growing girls is toowell established a fact to require any explanation... I could always detect the existenceof this rule but a glance at the stocking feet of the workers, and at the rows of discardedshoes... For after a few hours the strain upon the swollen feet becomes intolerable, andone girl after another discards her shoes.Another harsh and very common practice of employers is to cover the lower sashes ofthe windows with paint and to fasten them so that they cannot be raised in hot weather.This is done so the girls “don't waste time looking out.&#34;

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USA has a long history of discrimination against women and workers. Over the centuries there have…

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