After reading a handful of articles from the 19th Century Dictionary of Victorian London, one diary entry by Arthur Munby from April 1872 appealed to me the most. This blog post was interesting to me because I did not know that during the Victorian Age there were typically only male waiters. I found this insulting because I am a waitress where I live and I could not imagine being unable to work in a restaurant or “saloon” because of my gender. Munby describes his experience of his night at a large restaurant that advertises themselves as having a female wait staff rather than male. He wrote his thoughts upon entering the saloon, “A wholesome innovation, and we may as well see whether it is attended with good results’, as it should be.” This line made me infer that it was extremely uncommon to have women waitressing. Throughout the diary entry, Arthur explains the inappropriate actions a table of three older men were instilling on these females as they were serving them. I’m sure this kind of behavior still happens in restaurants today but it is rare. The disrespect these men were giving the women in the saloon may have been why they were there.”The girl, accustomed perhaps to such treatment, received his caresses with passive simpering acquiescence”, Arthur describes the way she responded to his actions. As I was reading, I thought about the possibility of the restaurant advertising their female staff to lure men in to eat and drink. Using women as a selling point to a restaurant is wrong. This article made me think of places like Hooters, where attractive women serve men wings and such as they make cat calls and flirtatious comments. I did not fully understand the inequality of women of the 19th Century until I read a few of the entries under the “Women” tab. Our society has grown since then and women are treated a lot more equally in the work force.