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The first lady obtained access to the University in
1870; in latter years more than one-fifth of the
young students are women. It is not yet usual for
women to hold high official positions, although they
may be elected members of school-boards and
committees of public assistance, but they work in every
department, and in many positions for which they are
better adapted than men. They are found in greater
numbers than men in the banks and public treasuries
as cashiers and accountants, and in the post and
telegraph offices. In the country the postal officials are
mostly women, and half of the teachers in the public
elementary schools are women. A great number are
now found in the liberal professions, the majority being
among the doctors.
Besides the great number of associations of different
kinds for agriculture and other branches of economic
life, and for scientific and artistic purposes, we may
here mention further the associations established
especially for spreading knowledge and education among
the people. The oldest of these is the Society for
Public Education, established in 1873, which is
especially engaged in spreading popular Finnish and
Swedish literature. There are further two societies
called “Friends of the People Schools,” one Finnish
and one Swedish, which establish and assist schools
where the local Finnish or Swedish population is
unable to do so itself. Not long ago the “Hemskola”
(Home School) was established, an organisation to
assist education in the home, which is already of
great importance in Finland, and in the present
situation is particularly interesting. Excellent pamphlets
and literary and educational material of various kinds
are now at the disposal of the smallest and most
distant homes of the large country districts. The
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