BANK OF ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)

BANK OF ENGLAND

STAFFING DIFFICULTIES , JOB FOR MARRIED WOMEN OLD RULE MAY BE WAIVED (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, Nov. 26 The Bank of England may be . obliged to break one of their most I inflexible rules. They may employ j married women, states the Evening , Standard. When a woman member of the staff gets married she must leave at once. No exceptions are made and no n/iarried women are employed. Since the outbreak of war, however. many of the staff have joined up. And the routine work of the Bank was disturbed by the removals to the country. The directors had to decide whether they should employ untrained, unmarried girls, or re-em-ploiy those women members of the i staff who had married. \ The arguments against employing I new persons were that they would | a long time to train, and there | would be hardship in having to dismiss them when the male staff re- | turned at end of the war. j An interesting point that emerged ! during the investigation was that j thd “life” of a girl in the Bank j averaged eight years. Those who j stalrt at eighteen leave by the time j are twenty-six.