WOMEN’S QUEER TRADES.

Shannon News, 10 March 1925, Page 4

WOMEN’S QUEER TRADES.

BARGEES, UNDERTAKERS, CHIM. NEY SWEEPS. SEVENTY-THREE BOOKMAKERS. Women, according to official statis. tics in England and Wales, are now doing almost every kind of work previously done exclusively by men. They have invaded even the domains ■°f undertakers, cellarmen, and bargees. Details concerning the number ot women employed in occupations usually regarded as the particular province of men are: — Women. Occupation. Employed. Undertakers 149 .Chimney sweeps 23 Lighthouse and lightship hands 5 . Bookmakers 73 Racehorse trainers and jockeys ••• 11 Airmen * Brewers 19 Cellarmen 298 Railway station masters, yard masters and the like ■ '.309 Shunters, points men, and . level crossing wokrers 722 Farm bailiffs 217 men ..... 752 Bargee s 500 “Master” stevedores 6

There are also women plumbers, riveters, safe makers, sand blasters, and .gunsmiths: No fewer than 20,404 are' employed as electrical apparatus makers, fitters, and electricians. In agricultural occupations alone no lower than 83,052 women and girls are engaged. Shepherdesses are few; there are only forty.two, and thirty of them are unmarried. •Many women, it is shown, are important figures in industry. Not only do they own factories, but they also manage them, arid apparently supervise large numbers of men and work, ers. Women employers and managers in the brick, pottery, and glass Industries total seventy.ttwo. But, after all, the greatest number of women are those who are simply described as being in “personal service."' These total 1,676,425. Railway porters and lamp