WOMEN IN COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 235, 30 June 1922, Page 5

WOMEN IN COMMERCE

HOW THEY ARE STANDING THE TEST VIEWS OF BANK MANAGERS Sydney, June 29. The “Sydney Daily Telegraph” publishes interviews with various bank managers on the ' question whether women are continuing to make good in the positions they filled in commercial life during the absence of the men at the war. The almost unanimous opinion was that in a clerical capacity they had satisfactorily proved their ability. As io their bank - ing capacity, views vary, with th® proviso that they have not had time yet to fully test themselves. One banker declared that they were not so dependable in similar positions as men, and owing to their physical construction they could not always be reckoned upon in a crisis. Another declared that woman, as a bank clerk, was still in the cradle. "She doos what she is told, more or less.” Judged in the mass, sho is placid, and vaguely intelligent, but tractable. As a clerical worker she is, in the main, equal to a man. A third eaid that briliant women of brains were difficult to find,, but when they were found they eclipsed the man. The stamina of a woman was much against her. Where a man would go doggedly through with a, x tough bit of work, a woman's nerve would break. The time of pressure was the time a woman failed, unless she was a great exception.—Press Assn.