WOMAN V. MAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11250, 30 June 1922, Page 6

WOMAN V. MAN

AS A BANK OFFICIAL. SOME INTERESTING OPINIONS. ) By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright . SYDNEY, June 29. Tho Sydney “Daily Telegraph” publishers 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 the men at tho war.

The almost unanimous opinion was that in a clerical capacity they had satisfactorily proved their ability. As to their banning capacity, views vary, with the proviso that they have not had time yet to fully test themselves. Ono banker declared that they were not so dependable in similar positions as men, and owing to their physical construction they could not always he reckoned upon in a crisis. Another declared that woman, se a bank clerk, was still in the cradle. “She does what she is told, more or less.” Judged in the mass, she is placid, and vaguely intelligent, hut tractable. As a clerical worker she is, in the main, equal to a man. A third said that brilliant women of brains were difficult to find, but when they were found they eclipsed the man. The stamina of a woman was much against hetr. Where a man could go doggedly through with a tough bit of work, a woman’s nerve breaks. The time of pressure is the time a womau fails, unless she is a great exception.