The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-22
EUROPEAN WOMAN
LEAVES PRESIDE
FOR MANS WORK
Warned She Must Eventual
~ Step Aside Yet Women
Persist in Industrial
Pursuit.

Zurich, Switzerland. Dec. 22-With
the new levy in Austria-Hungar
drawing away yet many thoussn ds
more men from civil occupations, the
demand for female help has been
further Increased. Women are now
not only welcomed, but eagerly sought
for in various fields of industry and
commerce from which they were pre-
vious1y stern1y excluded. But at the
same time they have been given to
understand that this is only a tenn
porary condition, and they must be
prepared to make room for the men,
when they come back from the field.
Quite apart from the much talked
of women street car conductors, one
sees the sex engaged now in all kinds
of work, in factories, stores and Of
fees, everywhere. In the 1aborator-
les of great Industrial plants the
FRAU Doktor'' is standing behind
gagged in the most intricate chemical
analysis. Before the war she was
only admitted as an assistant but as
one after the other of her male coll
leagues was called to the army she
was permitted to fill their places.
Coming into Vienna on the north
ern railway, hundreds of women may
be seen working on the gigantic coal
heaps, shove1ing the CO II into the hop
pers and performing the heaviest kind
of manual labor. Formerly every
body would have scoffed at the idea
of a female Goodman but now no
body turns to look at her.
Amateur women photographers
have become assistants to doctors in
X-ray work, and in tro-thera-
peutic treatment. In Graft special
courses of instruction in photogra ply
are being given for this work The
women are taught by university pro-
fessors, and receive certificates at
testing their fitness.
The capable housewife no longer re-
mains at home; her services have
been found valuable IN taking the do
nestle management of hospitals, and
sanatoriums, and conva1escent homes
If living in the country she devotes
herself to raising poultry and eggs, or
fruit growing. The agricultural col
leges are consta ntly Increasing their
number of women students. People
who hitherto opposed the idea of
women becoming gardners are now
applying to the colleges for them
Young women have already done ex-
tren1e1y well as landscape gardeners. A
special school for them has recently
been opened in Vienna.
This problem Of the effect of the
entry of women into the labor market
after the war, is already engaging the
serious attention of the authorities in
Austria and in Germany. Only re-
Gently the Bavarian government is
sued a public warning to women
against rushing into fields of work
SO far nonopolized by men. They
were told in plain terms, that as a
matter Of course they would have to
give UP their places to men as soon
as the latter were back from the
army; and that therefore they ought
not to spend money on training in
business colleges for employment
which could. only prove Temporary.
But just the same these colleges have
gone on advertising for pupils ard
promising them most lucrative en-
gagements at the end of a few weeks
course. And the rush OF new appli-
cants for positions continues. despite
the warning of the authorities that in
Bavaria, at least, the supply of
women labor of AL grades is greater
than the demand.