GRADUAL EXCLUSION FROM AMERICAN OFFICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 2

GRADUAL EXCLUSION FROM AMERICAN OFFICES.

Large employers in the United States, i where more women perhaps than in any other country earn a living as clerks and secretaries, are gradually coming to the conclusion that it is better comtnor* rial and i&dustrial policy to employ men wherever possible to the exclusion of women (writes the New # York correspondent of the London Daily Mail). The reason given for this significant and important change in the attitude of employers is that "women are interested primarily in matrimony, and regard their work merely as a temporary expedient." Foremost among the protagonists of the new movement, apart from thei'ost Office, are the great railways and industrial corporations. Gradually, gently, almost secretly, they are replacing wo» men employees with 'men. The South* crn Pacific Railway, imitating the policy already adopted by a number of Eastern railways, issued a new regulation prohibiting the employment of women in the Western passenger department. This is pnly one of a dozen similar cases in which the door of employment has been closed softly, bnt none the less definitely, in tho face of women. As a well-known railwny manager expressed it. "we are not slamming th'& door against women. We fear tho general outcry" and unfounded criticisms such action would cause. In the administration of railways continuous service is a prime requisite. We need employees who are eager to climb the ladder of promotion. Unfortunately women regard business as a makeshift. They become stenographers and clerks, not with ft view to obtaining higher positions, but meroly to earn enough money temporarily to meet t their needs. A woman holds a position with her eyes open for £!ie first rhattce of le&vitig a. Her main desire is marriage, and 93 soon as the man appears she deserts the office for the home/ According to the head of ft. large compajiy, women shorlliond-writers and clerks on an average An not work longer than three years. After that they marry. Moreover, those who do not marry and remain in employment after thirty years of age do not improve like the men. They rarely strive _to raise themselves into executive positions, to "branch out," or help build up their company as men do.

Roeljn euits are made with a thorough' knowledge of the science of correct cuit-building.— Advt,