THE CALL TO WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 127, 22 February 1919, Page 4

THE CALL TO WOMEN

WORK SPHERES IN PEACE TIME. The London Central Bureau for the Employment of Women, of which Lady Uryce is chairwoman, gives the "Daily News" some indication of the various, branches of work in which women aie most wanted. Women, it was stated, are wanted in medicine, iu teaching, in nursing, and in public health work. Lady cooks, lady Housekeepers, and lady superintendents are .wanted for hostels, hospitals, business and other institutions, and there are good openings in science, women with science degrees being woefully short. Women will also be wanted for foreign correspondence, and later on probably tor going abroad. The bureau in Princes Street has a loan fund, of which Lady Dudley is president, and makes loans to ladies which cover about half the expense of training, and are. repayable by easy instalments wheu they have been fairly launched upon a career. Teachers, it was explained, must have a university degree, for which three years' training at a university is required, and it is desirable that it should be followed by a year at a training college. Medicine takes five years' training after matriculation. With economy the cost, of training for these two. professions might be kept to J3OO a year. l?or midwifery six months' training is usually sufficient. A girl with a gift for the work can also learn cooking in six months, and if she then takes a post as an assistant in a hospital or some other institution she can work up to a headship. ]?or housekeeping training is just as essential. "If a woman wants to be a really good housekeeper," it was stated, "and control in a business firm, she should have a diploma, which can , be gained by a year or two years' study at one of the county council schools, or at a private school specially devoted to training in domestic subjects." These are all suggestions for the girls and women who either have been or can be trained. During the war it has been mostly the untrained who have been in distress; and in the coming times of peace, so far as well-paid posts are concerned, the same principle will apply.