WOMEN AND MONEY.

Northern Advocate, 22 August 1913, Page 3

WOMEN AND MONEY.

••Are women safer handlers of money than men?" The question is causing no little stir in the United States at the present time owing to the appointment of a prominent suffragette to an important Government office at a salary of 3000 dollars (£600), on the ground that women can be better trustee to handle money than men. A representative of the Pall Mall Gazette sought the opinion of several business men who employ both sexes, and the general verdict seemed to be that women are on the whole more honest than men, but that it is difficult to find them equally efficient. Mr Gordon Selfrid|;e said that, taking the average women were more honest than men, but by selecting a staff with care one had no difficulty in finding plenty of honest men who can do their work admirably. On the other hand, another large employer, who. said that, perhaps, for his piece of mind his identity should not be disclosed, declared that the average woman could not be trusted. They don't take an interest in their work, and are always looking at the clock to see when they can leave. As for mistakes, it really makes one's hai-r stand on end to see the stupid blunders they make. Are they safer handlers of money than men? Emphatically no. They regard a situation as a mere stepping-stone to marriage.