BANK CLERKS’ SEX WAR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16033, 26 January 1920, Page 5

BANK CLERKS’ SEX WAR.

Some queer letters have reached Miss Dorothy Evans, of the British Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries, on the efforts now being made to ‘'unionise” the bank-girls. One boy, aged 19, wrote that the reason for the agitation was “sex equality, or the swell-headednesa prevalent among women.” Miss Evans says the girls chiefly complain of the general attitude of the men—not all of whom served in the war—towards them. It is frosty, to say the least. They realise that exservice men have the first right, but they are finding strong prejudice against their holding any position involving more than routine work, even though they have risen through experience and ability. Some men, they say, are even advocating the, expulsion of all women except typists and filers.