"BARRING THE BRAINS."
■ a ■ IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.. The fact that the public service waa losing a great many of, the most promising college girls who desired to go into offices but were ; barred from doing so through their'ignorance of typewriting was' stressed by Miss M. McLean (principal of the Wellington Girls' College) at the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools' Association in Wellington. On behalf of" the college, Miss Mcl*an moved: "That this association protests against results in the public service examination being ignored as far as girls are concerned in the matter of appointments to the clerical division of the public service, and also against girls being excluded from the. June examinations." Miss McLean, supporting the motion, declared that girls were being excluded from positions in the public service because they did not do typewriting. This wtas keeping some of the Dominion's brainiest girls out of the Government service, whereas complaints had been made by Government Departments that girls in the- service were in many cases very incapable, and could not even take a letter-down correctly. The motion was carried.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 14
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