CORRESPONDENCE THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

TO THE EDITOR. Si,. Perhaps “ A.A.H.” will specify tho jobs he has lost through the superior efficiency, udiiptubility, uud good manners of the modern young woman. Does he really consider that employers are so sentimental as to employ girls from philanthropic motives, to the exclusion of young men? The employers look for efficiency and good service, a just return in output for good wages, and select workers accordingly. It is time that New Zealanders refrained from airing out-of-date and exploded ideas, so as to keep abreast of other countries, as at present they are fifty years bcliind the times. Does “A.A.H.” wish to sit at a factory machine making women’s clothes or babies’ outfits, or at a telephone switchboard, or a typewriter? For there are few other openings for girls in this dominion, Where are the women sanitary inspectors and health visitors, tho woman school and factory inspectors, women builders, engineers, and business women, stock brokers, lawyers, and advertising agents, such are to be found in Fargo numbers in other countries? New Zealand , lags behind sadly owing It old-fashioned and discredited notions on many problems. And let mo speak from experience of the splendid domestic qualities _of the business girl, who in a majority of instances helps her homo people financially to an extent beyond what is customary from the sons. . Young men would not be out of jobs if they gave more efficient and loyal service to their employer, and took more interest in tho firm’s welfare than in their own imaginary “ rights ” and the latest sporting events. —I am, etc., A Business Woman. January 26.