Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-08
WOMEN ENTER MANY
new SPHERES AS
RESULT OF STRIFE
European War Has Radical e.
feet on Woman'S Position as
Regards Labor; After-EffeCt
Is Matter of Conjecture.

Regards Labor; After-EffeCt
Is Matter of Conjecture.
LONDON, Sept. None Of the
wars changes in our social structure
will prove so notable to the future his
torian as the wholesale introduction
of woman labor into trades, occupa-
tions, and professions hitherto eXclu-
sively stated by men, declared Sir
George Croydon Marks, Member of
Parliament for Northeast Cornwall, in
the first Of a series Of lectures on The
New Woman He added
The question which is of real inn
portance today, however, is whether
that future historian will regard the
phenomenon as coincident with war
conditions and terminating with them,
or whether it will mark the beginning
Of a social revolution and a new stage
lin the industrial and commercial Co
operation of men and women.
! when the war is over shall we still
see the milk-woman, the girl ticket
collector, the girl commissionaire at
their work, or will they automatically
disappear before the returning tide of
the civilian armies?
I'VE may well ask ourselves at this
moment, for it is a question which
must inevitably arise and a prob.
lem for which we cannot be too well
prepared. What is to happen at the
conclusion of the war to those women
Of every social grade and every shade
of attainment who i'm the past year
have slipped so readily into mans oc-
equations?
in considering the question broadly
the analogy Of France may be taken
into consideration The capacity, tho
business ability, and the ready grasp
Of affairs which the women of France.
more than of any other nation. have
shown themselves to possess has been
traced, perhaps fancifully, to the fire.
quent necessity with which they have
been forced to take upon themselves
the conduct of those affairs during the
absence Of their men on military du-
ties
at is quite possible, indeed quite
probable that the tendency of
wholesale introduction of women's la.
Dor which we are ar present witness
ing may be to develop those qualities
Of resourcefulness and of ready eff
cheney which characterize and have
characterized French women for many
years.
considered more narrowly. the
problem which viii present itself to
the business man as soon as the war
is over is, simply stated how far it
viii be his duty to replace the pa
triotic woman who is taking the place
Of the soldier fighting his country's
battles, by that soldier himself. when
the time to lay down his arms ar
riyes
"At first sight it may seem no prob.
lem at all. Apart from actual prom
+ Uses given there remains a pledge of
honor TO reinstate the soldier i'm his
position as the wageearner No con
sideration of economy. no considera-
ton of efficiency rapidly acquired by
The woman worker can be allowed for
an instant to interfere with this.
+ Undoubtedly many employers will
feel a wrench in rejecting those wom-
4 en- who, for the past year or more.
have been doing their duties so nimbly
and effectively in favor of the soldier
whose new life will probably have un-
fitted him to some extent for the Of
fee stool. The effect may be in many
instances that employers will find a
way of retaining the services perma
nently of those women i'm conjunc-
ton with the reinstated men.
( "In the past, the jealousy which has
been felt of women's employment in
business has been founded entirely on
the wages question. While men work
ed for a living wage, women worked
for pocket-money, and were able to ac-
cept it because they were able to be
dependent primarily on the wage-earn-
er. 10 is obvious that il is upon this
question Of wages that the whole prob
lem must ultimately depend. The bust
ness man must realize that cheap
/ f''ttAfAAA n ifNhNA ~ at NNt DtNl n tenn
porary eXpedient in wartime from a
national standpoint, and a temporary
/ eXpedient in peace time from a per.
sonal standpoint
without making any ATTEMPT AT
prophecy it may not be unreasonable
TO suggest that while considerable
Plumbers of women temporarily EN-.
Iployed at present viii be displaced by
the return of the armies, the effect
of the existing situation viii be 10
establish woman's labor on a far firm
er footing in those industries where
they elm be retained without injury
to their health, and that the wastage
I, of human life viii be to a large ex
tent repaired by these women
are now humg themselves for new oc
Icupations'