WOMEN AT WORK.
Four out of every five women earn and if the labour which they perform w ere to be suddenly withdrawn there would be an instantaneous breakdown in the iite ot the country. In Great Britain. factories employ something over I.SiK).OOO. or roughly one-third of the total of employed women. According to the latest census returns. 1.472 N i week as domestic servant*. charwomen and office cleaners; 70.009 work in transport. -V>.ooo in agrii uiture. 36,000 in printing an l photography. 26,001' *n dressmaking, 16,000 in entertainment and sport. There are 2000 women working in above-ground mining operations, and between 3000 and 4000 in miscellaneous occupations—--2.> shepherds for instance, and 27 chimney-sweeps, 16 plunders. 33 coachmen. 2 jockeys and a gamekeeper. There were in 1931 604.000 women employed in commerce in one way and another, and 4U0.000 doing professional work.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13178, 10 February 1936, Page 3
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