WOMEN IN BUSINESS
SUCCESS AS STENOGRAPHERS. ''“lt was not till August, 1914, that typing became a purely feminine ploy. In the previous lustre tiie young lady stenographer, though now become plentiful, was not common form,” writes' Mr Patrick Chalmers in the Financial News. she is übiquitous and indispensable. To me the Wonder of her is tliat she has, hitherto, been incapable of advancing in the City ppyond the prefect private secretary at'a Salary of; at the utmost, £SOO per annum.
‘.‘There is, even to-day, no Eve who! good business woman though she be, is the genuine working head of a business house. If ladies are occasionally members of directorates, they sit on their board by right of birth. or by purchase. I haYe never met a woman who can say to another: ‘My dear, I began at 17s 6d a week as a rushabout in 1915, and look at me now, head of the firm and half a million to my credit” I" do not know why this is SO, but so it is.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3461, 3 May 1934, Page 6
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