Girls in Offices.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 8

Girls in Offices.

To the Editor. Dear Sir,—lt puzzles me how some men can be so narrow-minded and prejudiced against girls asserting themselves in the business world. Can they not grasp the fact, plain as can be, that the days when parents can afford to keep all their daughters home are gone beyond recall. Girls, just as necessarily as boys, must earti their own living. The w’hole present social and economic fabric makes that quite clear. Man has ever been jealous of women's recent swift and steady march towards freedom and independence. It is ludicrous the way he persistently cries her down when the whole world knows that in most of the business world she is now every bit as, and often more, efficient than her male competitor. There are a few gentlemen wh-i are broadminded and honest enough to give a girl credit where it is due. Others, highly jealous, are incensed if a girl climbs up level with them and sometimes beyond, and would only be satisfied if she were pushed out of the scheme of things altogether. That will never be; woman has climbed too high, and made herself too indispensable, to be pushed back again by mere man.—l am, etc., E.A.