THE CIVIL SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 16 November 1928, Page 13

THE CIVIL SERVICE

■ UNIVERSITY W.QMEN WANTED ■'■'•We Co want a steady flow of young university women into the higher grades of the Civil Service," stated a prominent woman official of the Ministry of Labour in London. '.'-We feel that the numbcfl and importance of the careers in the Civil Service open to women ai'e not fully recognised. In the Treasury and Department.ar.Qass.es wo already ■ havo some women holding posts to whic,h salaries .of from.£3oo to £.850 arc attached. "But if .women are to take their proper place in "tile service, ther.e uiust.be 'an adequate, supply, of suitable candidates tp enter for 'the competitive ex: aminations w&JLch aro held nearly every year and which gave admission to the ! higher grades. Candidates mvs r t ,be university w,omen and must either be unmarried or widows.'' Among the Government Departments which employ specially qualified women officers of the "professional" type are .the Ministry of' Agriculture, yictoria and Albert Museum, Department of Scientific and In^ustrjial Keseareh, Civil S.er.yice .Comrniss.ion, Scottish Education Department and^Ppard.of health, Welsh Board of Health, foreign Office, Ministry of Health,- and Home Office. These women ar,e holding appointments as doctors, .librarians, research works, and museum assistants. Their scales of salary frequently reach a very high maximum. Sometimes vacancies are filled merely by interview before a selection board, with ,or without a written qualifying examinationj at other times by means of an ipen competitive examination. Candidates should possess a university degree or its equivalent in medicine, science, art, or law.