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Women Clerks at Washington Wage and Role in 1867
A partisan-era survey shows women workers in Washington’s Treasury, Agricultural, and War Departments, with notable pay gaps. It details the work of clerks copying, counting, and processing currency and payrolls, noting male clerks earn up to 1800 annually while women earn about 900, and recounts rough rules and dismissals affecting female staff.
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Washington
Washtington
Treasury, Agricultural and War Departments
Patent and Pension Offices
Interior Department
Patent Office
Pension Office
Secretary of the Interior
Agricultural Department
Navy
State Department
War Department
Quartermaster General
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Comptroller of
Treasurer’s Office
Secretary’s and Register’s
Land Office
Thompson
Ryngie Hoop