WOMEN JOURNALISTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5802, 20 January 1906, Page 11

WOMEN JOURNALISTS.

Tho "Figaro" has been collecting statistics about (he lady journalist. There arc six hundred of these, it declares. who live by journalism in Eng. land—we should have said (here wore more, but perhaps this excludes the lady who merely wants to earn a liftlo more pocket money—ns against 2103 to America, nnd 1200 in Germany. Of the latter. 27 per cent, deal with literature. 181 per cent, with political economy, 10 per cent, with pedagogy. 8) per cent, with science, 74 per cent, with fashions. 5 per cent, with history, 1) per cent, with domestic cconomv 4) per cent, with housing problems, and 31 per cent, with politic®. It would be interesting to know if in England the proportion of tboso who deal with political economy nnd Pedagogy nnd of those writing about fashions would bo ns creditable. Tho same paper assorts that the income of these ladies vary from ono to six thousand francs, none of them touching that of Mrs Mary Booth, editor of "Harper’s Bazaar” in America, who is said to mnke forty thousand.