WOMEN WHO EARN £20,000 A YEAR.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 11 March 1927, Page 7

WOMEN WHO EARN £20,000 A YEAR.

MANY RIVAL MEN IN BUSINESS j. ABILITY. | . Eye is estalishing herself in husi- | nesS to-day on terms that serious- ! Jy threaten the supremacy of Adam. | Women holding positions like i that of Miss Edith Beezley, the £10,- - I 000 a year insurance director, are not rare. The London Chamber of | Commerce list reveals that there : are 110 women directors who are members of tbe Chamber. A year ago there were between 50 and 60, and two years ago there were only j five. . Each one of these 110 women is earning between £600 and £6000 a year. A few of the most successful are earning between £6000 and £20,000 a year. - "Probably' not more than a dozen of them earn less than £2000 a year, said an official ofi the Chamber. The iron and .steel iudustr.y, mining, manufacturing industries, finance, and/ the hotel industrv — not one is without its woman "chief, who can equal in astuteness and business capacity almost any of her male rivals. Women like Lady Rhondda,, Lady Polson, and Lady Plonwobd are, of course, on an equal footing with any male head of industry or husiness. Lady Rhondda is a director

of thirty companies, and few men can rival her record for business t ability. ! Lady Honwood is one of the big- ' gest hoteliers in the country. She ] controls nine hotels, and she huilt j up her business in a few years. Lady Polson is a principai of Chesnutt Cooper and Company, one of the higgest merchant firms in the city. Miss E. A. Anstin controls a hig firm of marine apparatus makers; | Miss Anzony is a director of a firm j of office appliance manufacturers; I Mme. Brazza, a director ofi Messrs j Gatti, Ltd.; Miss Newton a director j of Newton, Chambers, Ltd., the ibig ! Sheffield firm; and Mrs Prowse- ! Jones, of Keith Prowse, Ltd. ' Some women have succeeded in j the most "unfeminine" industries, | like. Miss Irwin, who is just about I to start a firm to trade in Irish | granite. She has already been suc- 1 cessful in other departments of' the | sarae business. |

Miss Anne Greaves owns 'and ' manages an important area of sand quarries; Miss Florence Swann has a wheelwright's business; while ! Mrs Enid Saunders, Miss Iris Saunders, and Mrs Rica Saunders control a large watch-making business. In all there are now 250, women company directors. t ,j ,