WOMEN AND AIRCRAFT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 159, 5 July 1916, Page 8

WOMEN AND AIRCRAFT.

An interesting account of women's ■work in a Government aircraft factory is given in a recent number of "Women's Employment." The article is written from personal experience, and some useful notes on the hours and rates of pay are given, but it is chiefly interesting for its details regarding the qualifications necessary to the work. These are plenty of common-sense, patience, and keenness to detect flaws in the metal, etc., while a good knowledge of arithmetic or geometry is helpful, though not essential. The actual training is given in the factory itself, and the worker advances gradually, learning as she goes, until she is capable of attaining to the post of inspector over other women workers; there is a possibility of further promotion should she have a knowledge of engineering or mechanics. Women are also employed in the "fabric" department, that is, testing and examining the wing materials, and in the drawing offices their services are greatly utilised. There they trace : the designs from which the dimensions are, calculated, and as this Is regarded as skilled labour the payTs good.