WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 14

WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

A woman's success is counted, not merely in pounds sterling, but in the weight of her name and influence, in her power to help or hinder great movements in public or professional life, says an English writer, and in her power to give joy or sorrow to the human beings who work for her. Capital puts such power in a woman's hand, but unless sho grasps it firmly, and puts her mind to it during most of her waking hours, she will lose it, or, merely drawing dividends, she will become a target for those who inveigh against the "luxurious life of the idle rich/' Britain's foremost example of women in big business is Lady Rhondda, who, trained by her iather, is director of about thirty companies and chairman of most of them. In these days it is becoming the custom—and rightly so—for a daughter to inherit and manage her father's business, and a case in point is that of a famous firm of organ builders, established in 1750, left equally to a daughter and two sons, but now managed by the daughter. Wide-minded women in business, looking at the world's need, instead of merely the profit and loss account in their own private ledger, can do much for progress. But first let them be trained for big business, not pitchforked into high positions where their ignorance of economics, of high finance and banking, of world markets and the la%v of demand and supply, is equal only to their erudition in the classics or even in housewifery. Let them aim at attaining tho degree of Bachelor of Commerce, available at several of our universities. If they cannot afford .this, there are day schools and night schools innumerable, where fo t - a few shillings to a few pounds a term they can get their grounding.