RIVALS TO MEN?

Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)

RIVALS TO MEN?

Women can only supplant men in work that “ is not too heavy for female strength,” which excludes most of the trades in which unemployment is most rife; but, even in the less strenuous, are women the serious rivals it is suggested? The employer will only prefer a woman for one of two reasons. Either she does the work better, or does it for a lower wage. ■ln general, she will only do it better in occupations for which her sex specially fits her. If, with all her physical limitations, she does other better than a man, he certainly deserves no sympathy. If she does it cheaper, but not so well, more will have to he employed to produce the same results', and her employment will not be a business proposition. To-day, women are better educated, and physically stronger, so undoubtedly have extended the sphere of their usefulness to the benefit of the community, but little, if at all, to the detriment of the male worker You cannot reduce the numbers of the unemployed by changing their sex.—Sir Chartres Biron, in ‘ Pearson’s.’