EDUCATED WOMEN WAR WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 6

EDUCATED WOMEN WAR WORKERS

•Shortly before the armistice a good many war-workers in sundry Government offices organised a scheme .by which those qualified to do f?o gave lectures on the different forms of employment openin particular to woin<en. Tlicro were lectures on.all kinds of work, from new methods in teaching music to marketgardening- and the like, and the prospects of each were, discussed in relation to the training required. Schemes are now in preparation to deal with the problem of the sudden cessation of work v for some thousands of educated wonien who have been pressed into the war ecrvice. Some have, never worked beforo and wish to continue. Some have grown.up since the war and entered the labour mnrkefwith tho necessity of ■ stopping' (here. , : Some have lost their means of support owing to the var.-.imd have been dependent, or mostly sd, on war work. Most of the general ■ schemes, however, seehvto centre round the question of unemployment money, so that unless immediate arid organised steps are taken to direct this enormous supply of free labour the stale of the workers at the end of tho unemployment period will be little loss bad than at the besimuni?. It is boiiiK suggested that the scheme of •lectures should be greatly extended, so that those women who are not at once absorbed elsewhere can be using their \ time in training for something eleevOno of the problems of the educated war worker is that she, has been able to take on a certain kind of war work, but that ehe is. not really trained to take on gt» eral work. i