WOMEN AS ENGINEERS
Now Eligible For Work On Britain's Trunk Roads ("Dominion" Special Service: By Airmail.! LONDON. Marell 10. Women engineers may shortly be seen at work on Britain’s trunk roads. Tlie Ministry of Transport has invited women as well as men to apply for iho post of temporary assistair engineer.
Tlie post advertised is for an engineer witli good experience of modern road and bridge engineering, ami a knowledge of highway authority procedure. Tlie appointment is on a temporary and non-pensionable basis, with a commencing salary of £3OO a year. “Although no woman lias yet been accepted by the Ministry, no discrimination of any kind is made.” a Ministry of Transport oflicial said. "Every application is considered fully on its merits without regard to whether tlie applicant is a man or woman. Bur so far no woman lias succeeded in securing an engineering appointment with tlie Ministry, or even nn interview. This is not surprising, as applications from men as u rule exceed those from women by about 20 to one..”
Mrs. W. T. Brown, I’ahiiitua, is at present in the Lewisham Hospital. Pahiatua.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 4
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185WOMEN AS ENGINEERS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 4
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