"IT IS SPLENDID."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

"IT IS SPLENDID."

WOMEN'S NEW OCCUPATIONS. RESULT OF THE WAR. "It is difficult to say what employment has not been invaded by women s lice the war sent Englishmen to the front," said Mrs Don, president of the W.C.T.U., in her annual report at the convention last week. "In most eases the innovations were not made without opposition til necessity forced the objectors to give way. Naturally the higher and better paid positions were most contested, and of these even now comparatively few, save in the medical profession, have been given to qualified women. A register has been compiled of university women capable of taking almost any position in education or science, and a fa:r number of such appointments have ; recently been made. As we have said, medical women have received high positions both at Home and abroad. The War Office have appointed women to be heads of war hospitals, and the services of women in medicine and surgery are at a premium. In local government women have received many positions as inspectors, members of boards and commissioners, etc. In clerical work women have made a great advance, on the whole, but women clerks, both now and before the war. are greatly underpaid. Women police (as distinct from voluntary women patrols) have not been much encouraged, but in Glasgow and m some other towns some appointments have been made. In the lower dosses of work women are largely employed, in many cases, happily, at fair wages, in a i'ew even on the same scale as men. Tlr.s ii the case with certain of the women who have been called into munition work, whero they ha'/* won gree.t praise. In many cities women are tram-drivers, postmen, chauffeurs, van drivers, etc., and give great satisfaction. Lady gardeners have coirsgreatly to the front. Women chemists are much in demand. Women are nowbegged to go into the harvest fields and agriculture generally, and are doing it. There are women grooms, rding teachers, etc. ''"lie whole domain of industry lias been more or less invaded by women during the war, out greater than the position* they have received under authority, niunie pal 01 Government, is the tfame they have won by the'r tremendous success in voluntary organisation, where they ar • not hampered by the continual jealousy and economic hostility of men. Last year has d -covered to the whole world the administrative capability <.r women, 1 : is -pb-ndid!"'