Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-11-15

| Washington, d. c., Nov. Whethe.
you like it or not, more women are going
| 70 work every year, and whether they
| like it or not. more women have to &c
! TO work each year.
/ A good living earned in office or fac
| tory looks better to many of them thar
| cooking on a gas stove IN little flat
| for whatever a man chooses to give them
t They are finding also that it is possible
| to have a job and q husband both. Ant
/ lots of them have to take the job be
cause they can't find a husband who is
| able to support them.
| SO many a 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 law
yer or doctor. The one seeking trade
| is almost always forced into stenogrnphy
millinery or dressmaking. And, worst Of
| all, comparatively few Of them are en-
couraged to learn any trade or profes-
| sion at all While the boy is coached
and encouraged and inspired. the girl Is
| left alone on the old-fashioned assump-
| ton that some man will come along and
take care of her. And if this assumption
proves false. as it now so often seems
| with only few occupations 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 Womens Bureau
Of the Labor Department, which has
made a survey to find out what sort of
| work women are doing in the trades, and
what training they are offered in the
schools.
Where Women Displaes Men.
Women have in the past three years
entered factories and shops to do work
previously delegated to men only. Wom-
en- had for years been employed in the
textile and clothing trades, and at such
work as making paper boxes and arti-
ficial flowers. Recently they have en-
tered foundries, machine shops. and fac
tories making furniture, optical goods,
instruments, gas masks and airplanes.
IN a few of their new jobs, chiefly where
the work was heavy. women were found
Inadequate. but in the main they have
developed satisfactory skill In running
machines and handling tools.
AS industry gets back to peace basis,
there is slight reduction III the number
Of women employed in lumber industries
and falling back to their pre-war status
in chemical and miscellaneous Industries,
In the metal trades women are retaining
their wartime hold.
According to the Women's Bureau. the
chances are that women will be used IN
increasing proportions in industry as
time goes on. For one thing, the pro-
portion of women immigrants as com
pared to men is increasing. The Wom-
ems Bureau regards it as highly signlf-
icant that there were more women com
ing into this country than leaving it IN
1919.
With this condition in mind and also
the fact that women are in demand III
some states in the so-called mems indus
tries. the bureau set out to discover
what chance a woman had to take a
vocational training course for technical
work.
What Schools Offer.
From statistics obtained. the bureau
found that high schools and trade schools
apparently still assume that girls are in
terested in domestic science, dressmakins
and millinery, but not in automobile me
chanics, wood working, or blue print
reading, while boys are encouraged to
take up such trades, girls are either not
admitted to the classes, or If there is no