WOMAN VERSUS MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13691, 6 March 1908, Page 3

WOMAN VERSUS MAN.

.. Sir,—Your correspondent under the'abort r heading touches only one side" of : the question. His' complaint is that women are replacing the men in the offices. If they do"' so (which is not yet) it will be the *, very , best thing that can happen. No Govern-." ment wants a nation of clerks, but men who* will develop the country, and if the men are forced out of these easy billets and" compelled to use the muscles Nature intended . them to use, it would be "the very • best thing for the race. The men on the land are the ones who make homes ana rear sturdy families, yet even-where there is a scarcity of such men, because theycrowd to the towns after easy clerical work.It is a melancholy sight to see a pale," narrow-chested youth stooping over a deskor serving behind a counter, instead of being; out in the fields making a home for himself, where he can marry and rear a healthy family. Again, the reduction in . the expense of production by employing women clerks at a lower salary benefits the community all round, for it means cheaper goods to the consumer, and therefore) in--creased trade and less poverty. i One has] only to look to America to see the. result of *. allowing women fairplav. '

The Employer's Point of View.