MEN OR WOMEN?

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 13

MEN OR WOMEN?

DECISION IN KANSAS

Women, not machines, are today the chief danger of modern civilisation. For ten years past, they have been taking men's jobs in increasing numbers, thereby causing in a large measure the present epidemic of unemployment. This dictum, by Professor Paul Converse, of Illinois University, has already influenced tho Federal Government, which is adopting measures designed to decrease the number of women employees in Washington, states the "Daily Mail." A decision taken by the Kansas City Power and Light Company shows that it is likely to be adopted as the cornerstone of their employment policy by industrial concerns generally. "Wo recognise," says the Kansas Company, "tho stabilising influence of a family home, and wo appreciate the necessity of providing young men with employment which will permit them to marry. "Therefore wo are taking steps gradually to employ more men." The decree of the company's directors is: "No more married women are to bo employed by us." The hardships of this decree are to bo temporarily alleviated as follows:— "Wo do not ask married women already employed to resign at this time, but any single woman employed by us must resign if she marries after July 1. Single women intending to marry, and desiring to retain their employment; must marry on or Jjef ore Jhafc date_£* (