WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 2

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

, TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,—l have read with interest the letters on the above subject, ami should recommend Bachelor ” to read ‘ Common Sense About Women,’ by Higginsou. He condemns himself by his signature. Wiiy did he not practise what ho preaches? Is not his type one of the main causes why there are so many women in industry? Take the average young man of, say, twenty-five to thirty in constant employment, who, lot us suppose, earns in the vicinity of £5 a week (quite sufficient to marry on). What does he think of? Mainly the acquisition of a motor car. to which his girl or series of girl friends is regarded as merely an accessory. Cure this state of affairs, and, as spring follows winter, the change so desired by “ Bachelor ” will come. T envy and admire “ Easter Bride ” for her trust and sincerity. May God guard her! Perhaps it is best to leave the whole matter in His hands. “ He works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.”—l am, etc.. True Femininity. March 10. TO TOE EDITOR Sir, —“ Humble Bachelor ” says in his views on. women in industry that we must follow Germany’s lead and replace women workers with men, but we won’t follow', Germany’s lead in such a foolish move. It would bo better to follow Russia’s lead and give women even more jobs, and make them economically independent, and provide them with even better conditions than at present, especially among the domestic servant class, and proper leave oi absence from their. duties on holiday. Women are not inferior to men as workers in both shop ami office; in many, many eases they are vastly man’s superior, and putting women out

ol : industries will not solve the unemployment crisis. Women are not responsible for 99 per cent, of domestic unhappiness, and the average woman is a fairly good cook, despite the fact that maybe she has had little chance to study the science of properly looking after a home (for such it is) and her education in that respect should begin in theory, at least, during school days. Housekeeping is not a lost art among women. They ax-e natural adepts at it, and men are perfect “ duds ” in a home if left to themselves for even a short time, and show a deplorable lack of method or system, is “ Humble Bachelor ” really serious when he says that the work a woman does in a day could be clone in less than an hour by her husband? That is absurd. The fact of the matter is that some women arc not adapted to the drudgery of house work, year in and year out, and simply must and will always go into industry and business. It is a survival of the fittest in the world, and it is time woman had a look in, as she has been kept in the background for thousands of years, and she is now developing her super-wonderful Intent powers all over the world.—l am, etc., Arthur Pickard. March 10.