Women in Banks.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1922, Page 1

Women in Banks.

SYDNEY MANAGERS’ VIEWS.

SYDNEY, June 29

The “Daily Telegraph” publishes interviews with various hank managers on the question of whether women are continuing to make good in the positions they filled in commercial life during tile absence of the menfolk at the war.

The almost unanimous opinion is that, in a clerical capacity, they have satisfactorily made good. As to their banking capacity, views vary, with the proviso that they have not had time'yet in ily to test themselves. One banker declared that they are not so dependable in similar positions as men, and owing to physical reasons, they could not nlway she reckoned upon in a crisis.

Another .declared that woman, as a bank clerk, was still in the cradle, and only did what she wa s told. Judged in tlie mass, she was placid and vaguely intelligent, but tractable. As a clerical worker she was, in the main, equal to a man.

A third banker said brilliant women of brains were difficult to find, but, when found, they eclipsed men. The stamina of women was much against them. 'Where a man could go doggedly through with a tough hit of work, a woman’s nerve would break. The time of pressure was the time when the woman failed, unless she was a great exception.