BIG MONEY JOBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1938, Page 4

BIG MONEY JOBS

POSITIONS HELD BY WOMEN. Women are now getting—and holding—the big money jobs in industry. Universities, colleges and technical institutes report that their lists are full up with girls who have forsaken typing for better pay. Meet one of them—Miss Ethel Rampling, of Fulham, England. A few years ago she was just an office girl. Today she is in charge of the research department of one of the big London factories. Instead of £2 a week she earns £750 a year. “When I left school,” she told a reporter, “I went into an office, but the routine work bored me to tears.

“So I qualified at a technical college, joined my present firm as a laboratory assistant and worked my way up to my present job. “Now I have four qualified men ■under me.”

Thousands of girls who would have been “just typists” are realising there is big money for them round the corner —in industry—in jobs regarded as “for men only.” An official of the London Birkbeck College, big centre for the teaching of science and physics, said: “About a third of our students are women. Many of them become teachers, but the number of our girls who go into the big industrial concerns as research workers in manufacturing processes is definitely on the increase.”