WOMEN AT WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 272, 18 February 1918, Page 5

WOMEN AT WORK.

The Institute of Bankers has opened its preliminary examination for the coming year to women.

Some 14,000 women arc now at work in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, and 10,000 a month are asked for.

Two women bellringers have been elected members of the C.uildford Guild of Change Ringers.

Writing of the refusal to admit women to practise as lawyers, the “Manchester (iuardian ’ says: “The only valid argument against their .idmission is that the women, or a few of them, would be so good that they would diminish the amount of work available for the men, and the members of the Bar, being good trade unionists, rejected the resolution solely on that account.”

Miss Checsnian ha*, been appointed assistant curator in the Zoological Gardens, London. She has < barge of three departments.

Two hundred thousand women are now “on the land” in England and W ales.

Messrs Mucnamara employ some 3c or 40 women drivers of mail vans, and have now put women in charge of their horses’ hospital.

The first four women students have passed their intermediate examination at Punjaub University.

The Turkish Government now ailow women to study medii ine, and also to enter commerc i.d schools as students.

In Germany, the first woman has been given the title of Professor of Music, and the first woman lector has been appointed at Leipzig University.

The first woman brain h sc. rotary of the National Union of Kailwaymen has been ap|K>iiitfd at Ashton-under-Lyne.

Nine women were sworn in at the Guildhall the other day as special constables on the Great Eastern Railway.

The latest statistics announce that since the outbreak of war 1,256,000 men from Britain required at the Front have been directly replaced by women. Capetown has made a start with three |»olice women, paid by the Government, and three* paid by the Municipality. Women are now able to qualify as architects. The Archite< tural Assouan in will open its school at 34, Bedford Square, London. Fifteen women students a r e receiving the full course of training in agriculture at the Cowra Experiment Farm. Mrs Mary C. C. Bradford, of Denver, who was elected President of the National Education Association, is the second woman in the world to receive such honour. The first was Mrs Ella Flagg Young.