WOMEN AS ENGINEERS.
Lady Parsons, newly admitted a fellow, read the first paper at the opening business session of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders (says *h e Weekly Scotsman), She condemned the tendency among engineers to consider that women were capable only of repeti tion work on fool-proof machines. Many women, she declared, developed great mechanical skill and real love of their work.. In the case of a firm repairing guns, two girls dealt with guns varying from a 13in naval gun weighing 50 tons to the 61b tank gun. They could design repairs and calculate the factor of safety of a damaged gun. Others were taught in one day to work a 12iin lathe. Binoculars were being entirely made by women. This was an industry built up during the war. The Ministry of Munitions exhibitions, she claimed, had proved conclusively that women were able to work on almost every known operation in engineering. Lord Weir prophesied that the trade union attitude granting full equality to women in everything but opportunity would have t<> be giyen up,
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1919, Page 3
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180WOMEN AS ENGINEERS. Northern Advocate, 23 October 1919, Page 3
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