THOROUGH WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1926, Page 16

THOROUGH WOMEN

• _ 4— — ;•• "Women in 'business are more thorough than men,'' recently declared Mr. A. N. Holleby at a Drapers' Summer School at Cambridge. ■ ' Whether women have the genius for. seeing ahead, or that gift for organisation which is given to some men, is debatable, though a number of brilliant women now hold important and highlypaid positions. But there is no doubt about woman's thoroughness, her.abil ity to watch detail. Everyone prefers, for instance, to have cleaning done by a woman; not always because it is essentially a feminine job, but because she does it with a care which man rarely displays. ■ ■ . So it is in the world of business. Any kind of work entailing : the following of definite instructions is executed better and more thoroughly by women than by men. And I am sure they concentrate better, as is, shown by the efficiency of women as telephonists and cashiers and in other occupations which require a more whole-hearted absorption than the average young man, with his varied sporting and other interests, is inclined to give. Whether women have acquired that hard-hearted judgment, stern determination and power of organisation which are essential in the head of a prosperous concern is another matter And yet it can safely be said, without injury to man's pride, that they are making rapid strides. After all, the chief difficulty that woman has to encounter in the higher walks of commerce is not so much her ovvn drawbacks as the reluctance of man to take her seriously and to give her executive ability a chance When this prejudice dies and a new tradition is built up, we shall see women as conspicuous in business as they are now.in fiction-writing and on the stage and screen. • ■