WOMEN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16749, 2 June 1922, Page 11

WOMEN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

Countess Marie Antoinette Bille-Brahe-Selby, of the best Danish nobility, is the latest pioneer among her countrywomen. She is trow in the East, on board tho Selandia, as a common sailor, in order to serve a term as electrical apprentice on board. She lias her own private cabin, and enjoys all the privileges of a first-class passenger when her eight hours’ work is done. She is the daughter of. Count Billo-Brahe-Selby, of Stensgaard, a lovely old castle dating from the twelfth or thirteenth century, and it may be exj>c*dient- to add that, in Denmark, the daughter of a count is a countess. Ever since she was seven years old this venturesome young woman has busied herself with electricity. When she had passed the student's examination she attended the Polvtechnieal College in Oopavnhagen for a year ; then, according to the rules, she worked six months in the Titan Engineering Work*, Copenhagen, never flinching at any of the tasks awaiting her. The director of the Polytechnical College. a.t their last annual function, referred with pride to her pluck and enthusiasm. Tn four years’ time she will- he a fullfledged engineer, and feels sure there will be plenty of work for her. Her services on board the Selandia will extend over four months. Young Scandinavian women go in rather strongly for the engineering profession, more especially in Denmark, where there at present are. 34 girl students at the Copenhagen Poly technical College, one of the best in the world. Most of these students go in for the chemical branch —that is. they become chemical manufacturers or engineers.