Women Do Men's Work
\W/ OMEN are increasingly taking over men’s work in the streets of London. The latest are women crossing-sweepers. The smartest-in their pale grey uniforms and peaked caps-are the bus conductoresses. My only complaint about them is that they can’t shout loud enough at the | fare stages. As I always go to sleep in buses, nowadays I. usually have to pay two fares, one to get me there, and another to bring me back to the spot where I ought to have got off. But the girls have inherited the Cockney sense of humour. I saw an elderly woman offer six farthings to one of them for a pennyhalfpenny fare the other day. To my surprise, the girl accepted the coins without comment, but when she carne to the next passenger, a small boy, she said, ‘What have you got? Ginger-beer bottles?’ Afterwards the same girl told me that, she was frightened to go to the shelter near her home during air raids because "there are mice down there." -Macdonald Hastings in "London Calling" (oe ----
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 41
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178Women Do Men's Work New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 41
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