THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN

Otago Witness, Issue 3571, 22 August 1922, Page 29

THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. LONDON. June 28. The latest figures of the staff of the International Labour Office of the League of Nations show that there are 160 women employed in that office, as against 135 men. ; It is expressly laid down in the regulations I of the office that all posts are open equally ! to women as well as men, following the i general principles agreed to by the signatories of the Fence Treaty in Part XIII, (the seventh of which reads: “The principle that men and women should receive equal ! remuneration for work of equal value.” ! Women have competed on equal terms I with men in the examinations held from time to time in different European capitals ! for the recruitment of staff, and it is ini (eventing to note that in one examination i for seven vacancies as editors and trans- | lators. five women were successful, as j against two men. Women belong to fif--1 teen out of the twenty-eight nationalities 1 at present represented in the International i Labour Office. The fifteen nationalities are: British. French, Swiss. Italian. Bel--1 gian. Czeeho-Slovtik. Dutch. Norwegian, I Russian. Canadian. Swedish, I Polish. German, and Danish. ’I lie highest i appointment held in the office by it woman ! is that of chief of the Labour Legislation Section of the Research Division. Mm | Sophie Sanger who is at the moment neti ; n g as chief of the division in the tenii pornry absence of Dr Royal Meeker on a mission in Central Europe. In the National ; Information Service all relations with ; women’s organisations are looked after by i a woman. Women are also in charge of the typing, multigraph. and toneq branch. | The employment of women in this newly- ! formed international civil service has seen j fully justified by tbe excellent results obI tained.