Careers for Women

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 72, 26 March 1936, Page 10

Careers for Women

INTERESTING NEW POSITIONS Twelve universities took part in a dinner to honour the employers who profor the intelligence in their women cm plovecs to youth of beauty. The twelve included Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Wales, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Liverpool Employers . who have won this tribute from the- academicians represent somo of the greatest modern British industries —railways, broadcasting, electricity, and the retail stores. Heads of these industries were to speak at the dinner at Price’s Restaurant on February 4 in order to make their point of view known to less enlightened employers. A governor of the 8.8. C., Mrs Mary Agnes Hamilton, presided. Sir John Brooke, vice-chairman of the Electricity Commission, was among the speakers. Guests included Sir Josiah Stamp, the railway company chairman. The dinner was organised by the Women’s Employment Federation, composed mainly of universities, girls’ schools, and- training colleges and progressive employers. It places highly trained girls and women at salaries of not less' Nan £3OO a year. Doors Still Closed. ‘‘Firms with a progressive policy are beginning to appreciate the advantage? of employing the women of intelligence with higher qualifications,” Mrs Oliver Strachey, the organising secretary, said. “One of the women -whom we placed recently could speak six languages fluently.’ ’ Interesting posts recently found for highly-trained women include production manager of a boot factory, and coding cables for a cold storage iirni. Here arc three of the careers that university girl students of to-day want to cuter and that are still closed to them —the Foreign Office, cinema photography and assayer of gold. The Royal Mint will not employ women assayers.