KEEPING A SECRET.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 270, 16 November 1909, Page 6

KEEPING A SECRET.

Women clerks of all kinds emphatically repudiate the suggestion made by a .shareholder at a meeting of the Bank of England, that women are unsatisfactory as clerks because they cannot keep a secret (says the Daily Mail). "The statement is discredited,"'said the woman manager of a large city training establishment for women, which has supplied many clerks to the Bank of England and other large institutions, "by the simple fact that the demand for women clerks steadily increases. The Bank of England and several other large banks have employed them for many years in secretarial work. If they were untrustworthy in the slightest degree such institutions would not continue to engage them. As regards private business houses, also, the imputation is unjust. The uneducated girl is too indolent to concern herself in any way with her employer's business affairs after.office' hours ;■. the'educated girl has too much self-respect to divulge them." The hon. secretary of the Association" of Shorthand Writers and Typists states: —"We have certain knowledge of a large financial firm in tEe City of London who discharged their male clerks and replaced them by women, for the simple reason that the former were in the habit of selling confidential information during the lunch-hour. . The manager of a prosperous establishment with a staff of over 20Q recently told us that if he could manage it he would not have one man clerk in his employ."