Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-15 | Page 6 | Women Workers

v. v Women Workers are the jobs for lor men which so dis- dis coura in ly continue to be lacking and mysteriously leave the relief rolls so big Part o of the answer is that women hold an large number of them There may be be other answers and so sq it will vilI pay not to jump at l conclusions too qt quickly much as the report of John D. D Biggers Bigers director of the federal federal federal fed fed- eral unemployment nt census revealed to President dent Roosevelt It may be taken to account for jobs men should be holdin holding downright downright down right now now and and it may may not On the basis of the 1930 census and the normal normal normal nor nor- mal population increase it was expected that by the fall of 1937 when 1937 when the census was taken taken- there would be about women gainfully Z employed But when Mr Biggers made made- his check up he found that tha th there rl w were re actually women holding jobs Something J q quite it unforeseen must have happened res resulting re- re s in an unprecedented increase in the number num- num ber of women workers Census bureau experts blame the depression sion 1 Ordinarily they explain women enter the labor market at the age of 20 20 or thereabouts and leave it a few vears years later But in the last half- half dozen years they haven't been leaving their jobs When male members of the family lose their jobs or cant can't find work the woman who has a job hangs on to it It would be easy to reach the conclusion that one one cause of male unemployment today is the presence of too many women in the labor mar mar- market mark k k ket t Before long tong more and more p ople will Itell tell ell us us th that t the unemployment problem v wont won't b be solved d until women give up their jo jobs s. s Yet this this' i a l i I would be one of those easy conclusions that dont don't stand up under analysis Suppose we did chase those extra women out of their jobs and replaced them with men we still would have made only a small dent in the unemployment situation The basic problem would remain unsolved The nations nation's payrolls would not be higher by one dime The total income going to the families of working folk would not be increased in the least We would be precisely where we were before except that the identities of some two and three quarters millions of the workers would be different Nor would we be bc better off if we went vent farther and replaced more and more women workers with men We would not have progressed one inch in the direction of improving ing the general being well of people who have to work for a living The un unemployment problem ceases to exist only when any industrious capable honest citIzen citizen citizen citi citI- zen who wishes a job can get one Any solution solution solution tion which doesn't bring us nearer that day is no solution at all