WOMEN IN BUSINESS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 4

WOMEN IN BUSINESS

Fitness as Leaders VIEWS OF SAME SEX Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.) London, Aug. 3. Comments on women as leaders in the world of "big business” have come from many sources lately, including speakers at the congresses of university women and commercial education. Some of the things said were: The Duchess of Atholl, M.P.: “Consular posts should be open to women, but it would be difficult to find many women who could discharge such duties with success.” Miss Ruth Tomlinson, secretary of the National Institution of the Boot and Shoe Trade: “Only three per cent, of business women are fitted now to exercise the highest administrative control. Woman has only emerged during the 100 years, and it is absurd to think that she could catch up with man in that short time. “Women do not attach enough Importance to physical fitness. As administrators they must have better meals and more outdoor recreation in order to be able to ‘stay the course.’ It is not the work in business that gives women difficulty, but the feeling of opposition, because they are not men.” Dr. Agnes Rogers, an American: “The university woman has a better chance of keeping her job now, in this crisis, than the uneducated woman. On the other hand, the modern schoolgirl is reluctant to go to the university because she feels that once a woman is labelled intellectual she will not have the same chance to marry.” In England there are reported to be 300 women company directors, 70 company secretaries, 60 qualified accountants, and 250 qualified engineers —electrical, civil* and marine.