Arizona republican., 1920-11-18
Teach Women
 HolU to Work
(By Frederic J. Haskin)

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. IS. Fl Whether you like 1t or not, more wom- en are going to work every year. And whether they like it or not, more wom en have to go to work every year.
 A good living earned fin office or factory looks better to many of them than cooking on a gas stove in a little flat for whatever a man chooses to give them. They are finding also that it is possible to have a job and hus- band both. And lots of them have to take the job because they can't find husband who is able to support them.
 So many girl is just as much on her own in life as her brother. Isn't it right and fair then to give her just as good a training for the struggle she is up against? The woman of brains may write for the newspapers or be a lawyer or doctor. The one seeking a trade is almost always forced into stenography, millinery or dressmaking. And, worst of all, com paratively few of them are encouraged to learn any trade or profession at all. While the boy is coached and en- couraged and inspired, the girl is left alone on the old fashioned assump tion that some man will come along and take care of her. And if this as- sumption proves false, as it now so often seems to do, she starts out in her working life with only a few occupa- tions open to her and very likely with no training for any of these.
 Is it fair? The question is raised and ably canvassed by the woman's bureau of the labor department, which has made survey to find out what sort of work women are doing in the trades, and what training they are of fered in the schools.
 Where Women Displaee Men Women have in the past three years entered factories and shops to do work | previously delegated to men only. Women had for years been employed in the textile and clothing trades. and at such work as making paper boxes and artificial flowers. Recently they have entered foundries, machine shops, and factories making furniture, opti- cal goods, instruments, gas masks, and air planes. In a few of their new jobs chiefly where the work was heavy women were found inadequate, but ir the main they have developed satis- factory skill in running machines and handling tools.
 As industry gets back to a peace basis, there is slight reduction in the
 number of women employed in lumber
 industries, and falling back to theil pre-war status in chemical and mis- hcellaneouS industries. In the meta trades. women are retaining their war. time hold.
 According to the woman's bureau } the chances are that women will b, used in increasing proportions in in
 dustry as time goes on. For one thing
 the proportion of women immigrant : as compared to men is increasing l The Woman's Bureau regards it a
 highly significant that there wer . more women coming into this countr : than leaving it in 1919. although il \ that year our total emigration exceed
 ed our immigration.
 With this condition in mind, an ? also the fact that women are in de
 mand in some states in the so-ca1le ? mems industries, the bureau set out t discover what chances woman ha
 to take vocational training course fo
 technical work.
 What Schools Offer
 From statistics obtained, the burea
 found that high schools and trad
 schools apparently still assume ths
 girls are interested in domestic sci . ence, dressmaking, and millinery, bJ not in automobile mechanics, wood n working, or blue print reading. Whi U boys are encouraged to take up sue
 trades, girls are either not admitte a to the classes, or if there is no ruin n against their admission, no attempt r made to interest them by explainir ,r the course and the opportunities -o that line of work.
 s Of 104 schools in which women wel ,t enrolled in industrial training cours - last term, there were only three schoo .d where women were taking automobi mechanics and repair. In two schoo = women had machine shop training:
 two they were taught wood workin, -A in eight matchmaking and jewell
 trades, and in two glove making ,a Most of the courses in which wom, - and girls were enrolled were the tr1 - ditional ones. Sixty-six schools taug - the clothing trades, A millinery. and o gave instruction in branches of t lo textile trade. B h o' It would be too much to expect tn
 a largen umber of girls should clam for courses in, say, automobile m s chanics if they merely knew that tn eo would not be excluded if they shou
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