RUSSIAN WOMEN ENGINEERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

RUSSIAN WOMEN ENGINEERS.

For many years the women of Russia have had full access to the medical and legal profession?, and the Russian woman Lawyer and woman doc tor bold high rank. The Russian medical training is notoriously strict, and women doctors from their colleges are in demand in all European countries. The Governmental opening of the technical professions to women is not only a tribute and a recognition of the excellent work which has been done by ti.eni in oilier professional lines, but t also strikingly portrays Russia's need for higlily-t-iaitied exports. So vast Li the exploitation of the natural resourcon of the country, and >o rigid arc the requirements demanded by universities, that it i«, almost impossible! to provide big projects with sufficient executives.

A number of women graduates have specialised in mining, other-, again have become expert in the good roads movement, which is a vital is.-aie in Russia : several will undertake duties connected with the rapid extension ot canals and watorwavs-.

.Many women hold important exeou tive positions in the .Mini-tiv of Agii culture.

Graduates in architecture do not lieconio dnruuhtsmen, hut have the opportunity to conceive and execute their own devgns. In Russia there is no preiudiee against the professional woman: in no other country do. s <\\c -laud, so fully on basis of equality. Tiu.sl"d positions in banks, formerly closed In weuieii, have been officially opened, affording an avenue io <.pcoial-i-t-, in ( •onnmics. News Is iu<t to band U.-t the City Duma of Kkaterinburg ha.s placd it-"lf on record a.s approving fu'l nmnii ipal f ranch i.->n for women p»., ir ■ ■