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Hints for Business Women
The News June 1936
IT is most essential for a business woman to make the best of her appearance, personality, figure, and charm, and yet she has less time for personal care than many other women. Her time must be well organised, and the best way to do this is told in “Beauty,” a valuable book offered to regular readers of “The News” and “The Mail” for 5/. An untidy, tired-looking woman will never attract the employer who is looking for a new employee however good her qualifications may be. The cure for a poor appearance is simply and clearly given. There are sections which will interest you whatever your walk of life may be.
Perhaps your waist is getting slightly large, your chin showing signs of doubleness, and other physical defects may spoil not only your appearance but your peace of mind. Every problem is dealt with. When you find how simple it is to include a few exercises in your daily life, or to take a little extra care in your choice of clothes, you will realise what an excellent reference book “Beauty” is in your home.
Men In Business Life
“So many women, so many opinions”
The News February 1926
Never was the old saying so well illustrated as in the present discussion on the employment of men in clerical work. From the enraged female who demands that all men’s jobs should be forthwith allotted to women to the dismal Jessika who foresees the whole of the commercial life of the country in the hands of a patriarchy, with women as mere sewers of clothes and cooks, opinion ranges over the whole gamut of the intervening shades of thought. Reviewing the rise of the movement which has so largely emancipated women in the past half-century, one feels that in spite of advantages, accruing their
admission to business has been a loss. In some of the avocations such as domestic architecture, buying and selling, and in retail houses there have been examples of women finding for themselves financially destroyed. In certain professions and as announcers, stenographers, comptometer operators, and behind the counter man has come to stay.
Women And Business
Burra Record Feb 1893
A great deal of nonsense has been written and spoken about the antagonism of business men toward those of tile opposite sex who are striving to support themselves. The men are represented as endeavouring, by inadequate payment, unfair treatment and harsh criticism, to depreciate the value –of a woman’s labour and to keep these poor slaves at the point of starvation. While this may be true as regards such human fiends as are found in the ranks of the sweaters, it does not apply to the rank and tile of men wage-earners, for they are glad to see women recognized as skilled workers and paid as such.
But some women demand special concessions -on account of their sex. They fail to recognize the vital fact, that when a woman throws her labour on the market she must make it in every way equal lo a man’s if she expects to receive equal pay ; for man’s pay she must do man’s work; and in any department when a woman can do a man’s work she has a right to stand on an equal fooling with him. But she must prepare her proficiency by the same arduous labour which he has been forced to yield, and look upon her trade as her life-work, not pro posing to take it up for a few years and then drop it at her pleasure.