WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
INCREASE IN WAR-TIME. 4,808,000 IN APRIL, 1918, Australian and N.Z. Cable Atsociation. (Reed. 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 13. The Board of Trade announces that the number of women employed in Britain in industries, excluding domestic service, at the .end of July, 1914, was 3,276,000, and in April, 1918, 4,808,000, of ' hom 1,516,000 had directly replaced males. The percentage of females to the total workers employed in April, 5918, was 37 per cent., compared with 24 per cent, in 1914.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17110, 15 March 1919, Page 9
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82WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17110, 15 March 1919, Page 9
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