WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18130, 30 June 1922, Page 7

WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

NOT AS DEPENDABLE AS MEN. A SYDNEY SYMPOSIUM. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. .Tune 29. The Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes interviews with various bank managers on the question whether women are continuing to "make good" in the positions they filled in commercial life during the absence of their menfolk at the war. The almost unanimous opinion is that in a clerical capacity they have proved satisfactory ; as to their banking capacity, views vary, the proviso being made that they have not yet had time to test themselves fully. One banker declared that they were not so dependable in similar positions as men, owing t<o their physical construction, and could not always be reckoned upon in a crisis. Another declared that woman as a bank clerk ia still in the cradle, and only does what she is told. More or less judged in the mass she is placid, vaguely intelligible but tractable. As a clerical •worker she is in the main equal to men. A third said that brilliant wonrn of brains were difficult to find, but when found they eclipsed men. The lamina of woman was much against her. Where a man could go doggedly through with a tough bit of work a woman's serve broke. The time'of pressure was the time when woman failed, unless she was a great exception.