Germantown Employment Society for Women (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.)

The Germantown Employment Society for Women originated ca. 1863 out of a concern felt by a group of Quaker women affiliated with what would later become Germantown Monthly Meeting, to aid women with little or no income and no way of earning money outside the home. Their stated purpose (1953 by-laws) was to "furnish needy women with sewing for hospitals or other institutions, their wages for such work to be paid by the Germantown Employment Society for Women with money obtained by contributions and from interest on securities which the society has obtained by gifts and legacies." In 1957 the society was absorbed into the Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor.