REFUSED JOB BECAUSE OF HER SEX
(Received November 19, 11.15 a.m.)
LONDON, November 18,
Miss Jean Batten was once refused a job in Sir Alan Cobham's flying circus. Referring to this as a guest of the Holborn Chamber of Commerce, she said: "I was left' .with the impression that pilots thought I ought to go away and get married. In fact, one of the pilots gave me that impression so much that I asked him if this was a proposal. He did not repeat the statement."
Sir Alan Cobham said: "My pilots were a lot of he-men, and I felt that if I took on Miss Batten there would be a riot, so I had to tell her reluctantly that the arrangsment would not work."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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