BRITISH WOMEN WORKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19328, 15 May 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

BRITISH WOMEN WORKERS.

It is said thai, British women have successfully invaded every masculine occupation. There are women manufacturers, ivon/en weather experts, women lawyers, .women explorers, women mayors, •women members cf Parliament, women Cabinet officials, w-jmen anthropologists; there is a woman aerial taxicab driver and a woman deep sea diver. Many of them are pretty* All are capable. Some are titled, are self-made. Some are married. Some are "surplus women"— the men who might) have been their husbands burled on European battlefields. One British village—Lawford, in Essex—is entirely run by women. Prom Miss Emily Spooner, tax collector and town overseer, down through the schoolmistress, 1 postmistress, and postwomen, every municipal job is held by women. The Duchess of Atholl is Undersecretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet, M.ss Vivian George is an assistant at the Royal College ot Surgeons, where she works daily surrounded by rows of grinning skulls. There are many women surgeons and doctors. Mrs. Elliott Lynn resigned the secretaryship of the Ladies' Atheni.cum Club when she obtained her license as a commercial air pilot, preparatory to taking up passenger-carrying work. Miss Margaret Naylor, Britain's first woman deep sea diver, is at present angling off the coast of Ireland for treasure that sank with a Spanish galleon in 1588. Lady Hollywood has just taken over' the eighth of her string of large hotels. Lady Warwick is preparing to donate her huge country seat as the site for a workers/ university, plans for which she is now completing. Lady Richmond Brown is at home for a while preparatory to leaving for another exploring ■expedition in one of the few uncivilised parts of the world)she has not visited. Miss Margaret Partridge is running the electric power supply of Bampton, Devonshire, after drawing plans for and supervising the erection of the power house, the capital for which she furnished. Miss W. E Pilkington is patiently taking the knocks that go to any weather forecaster as she carries on with her job as meteorologist of Brixton. Many women are running factories at some of which all the employees—mechanics as well as others — are women, ji But perhaps the chief of all British working women is the Begum of Bhopal. Her territory extends over 7000 miles, and her dominion over 700,000 people. The state revenues are about £400,000 a year.