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Show WRITES ON WOMAN'S PLACE IN BUSINESS 1 Miss E. L. Maddison, Formerly of Salt Lake, Says Efficiency Not Matter of Sex. The N ovember issne of the Coast J Banker, a an Franc is-eo publication,! contains an article concerning the new field opened to business women in the banks of the federal reserve system, which will be vastly interesting to women throughout the country. The article id by Miss Emma L. M'addison, who was formerly a member of the rep-ortorial rep-ortorial stuff of The Tribune and is well known in this ciry. Miss Maridi son now holds the position of secretary to John I", ''alkins. deputy eovernor of the fe-ieral reserve bank cuf San Fran-cicn. Fran-cicn. There baa been a marked increase during the past six months in the Dumber Dum-ber of "women employees of the banks. Miss Maddison gives a brief outline of the interesting information she has collected, col-lected, through a series of o nest ions put to the governors of the different members of the federal reserve system concerning the reasons other than the necessity imposed hy the war which have prompted the engagement of women for positions here: of ore filled very largely, if not on! i rely, by men. Miss Maddison says: "ome of these executives have come to rea lize that " the difference between what women can do and what men thiuk they can do is largely one of male prejudice': that efficiency is not a matter of sex. but of painstaking effort and application.'1 |