Girls schools start up,

女校成立了
girls education increases rapidly and thus it's quite

女性的知识水平迅速提高
another Zola novel, which is a great one,

这在左拉的另一部伟大的小说里也有体现
called Au Bonheur des Dames,

这书叫《妇女乐园》
which is about a department store,

是有关一个百货商场的故事
it's about the department store Bon Marche, in Paris.

是根据巴黎的乐蓬马歇百货商场改编的
For these young women get really miserable jobs,

这些年轻女孩的工作状况很悲惨
and what they're doing is they're sleeping in dormitories,

她们睡在宿舍
under horrible, sort of draconian regulations about what they can do.

宿舍对她们有着严酷的规定
But for them to get those kinds of jobs they have to be able to count,

但要得到这样的工作她们必须会算术
they have to be able to read, they have to be able to write.

会读书会写字
And so women's education increases

这反映了女性的知识水平