( I Need Help Can Someone Help Me ) WORKING CONDITIONS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
From an article that appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1910. The journalist, Florence Lucas Sanville, worked in a Pennsylvania silk mill in order to gather facts for this article.

The length of a factory girl’s work-day varies from a legal limit of eight hours in one or two states to ten, eleven or twelve in other states where the law still fails to protect its women from working the long hours are made up by the needs of the job.
In Pennsylvania...the law prescribes a limit of twelve hours daily and sixty hours weekly for women over eighteen; for girls under that age the law since January 1,1910 restricts this further to fifty-eight hours a week and an average of ten hours a day. In the factories scattered through the villages and small mining towns, in which great numbers of young girls are employed—such as silk factories—I found that over a half of the mills young girls were working ten and a half to eleven hours a day.
Lena R., a thin-shouldered, sickly looking girl with a sweet, bright face. She looked so young that I asked her age. “I’ll be fourteen in the winter,” she replied, and added that she had been doing night work since she was eleven.
One of the most striking evils in the physical environment of women in the factories is the lack of seats. Very few mills provide the seats, which are required by Pennsylvania Law...The harmful effect of continuous standing upon young and growing girls is too well established a fact to require any explanation. I could always detect the existence of this rule but a glance at the stocking feet of the workers, and at the rows of discarded shoes... For after a few hours the strain upon the swollen feet becomes painful, and one girl after another discards her shoes.
Another harsh and very common practice of employers is to cover the curtains of the 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.”

What are some of the conditions that women and children had to face when working in factories? One sentence is fine per bullet point, but please use complete sentences.

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