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Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1923, Page 3

“Women of 1023.” the newest American yenr book . reveal- that driving lorries. cleaning streets, and plumbing have become, during and since the war. “as much feminine o< < uontions a- playing the piano and sewing line stains were generations ago." Surveying the occupations of women throughput the world, tlio year book finds that overall'. grease, and heavy manual labour no longer have any terrors for them. Dut that there may now la seen women •‘stevedore', dock labourers, sailors, and deck hands." Women, tiie yearbook note, “are now successfully doing the work of blacksmiths, machinists, carpenters. lirii kmakers. tinsmiths, wood choppers, and goods clerks on railways. They are also driving delivery lorries, keeping lively stables, cobbling shoos, and washing out hoiLis. Side bv side with this increase in the physical labours of women is chronieded the feminine invasion ot the_ higher professions. There are now 1738 women iaw vers, judges, and magistrates: liN clergymen. 14.617 women artists. women physicians. 1829 women dentists, 1117 women architects, and 41 _women engineers. N’o fewer than 549.0il women ara employed and paid in the United States, and of the 678 occupations under review only 33 dp not yet boast of women recruits.