| Show 1 1 Women Wage Earner Earners One Out of Four Employed Big Increase Sho Show By y MORGAN M. M BEATTY BEATTI W A WASHINGTON A new census report on employment discloses discloses the startling fact that every fourth American woman over 14 years ears of age is a wage earner or wants to be one The total is nearly This phenomenon In our labor lor force forde e Is no odd bit of Information information tion for a radio quiz It actually may be changing way of life Ute The number of women holdIng holding holding hold- hold Ing Jobs today Is equal to the total number of wom women women n In the nation In 1870 In those days it was unladylike to work But to survive 10 per cent of the women or about had to work for wages In 1870 The shifting economic force of women has been slow through the years until the last decade In 1930 less than 17 per cent of all women were working for a wage envelope Take Tale Your Choice Ask census bureau officials what the sudden up step-up In employed employed employed em em- women means and they will give you answers which indicate that this is something to be alarmed or pleased or warned worried worried wor war ried ned about according to your own Ideas of what women should do In life It lt means mans among other things that women In cities are workIng working working work- work Ing In far lar greater numbers than women In small towns and rural areas For Instance more than 31 per cent of the women In South Bend Ind md are working for wages The depression played a large part in this great shift of women Into the labor market When men lost their jobs daughters and wives went out to hunt work Some of them were stenographers stenographers stenographers w who o had given up their jobs to marry Others were young women who entered the labor market for the first time The great increase In the service service service ice trade and clerical occupations occupations occupations had a lot to do with it Women are good at detail In such industries good clerks good operators good stenographers and secre secre- Machines a Factor Fador The great increase in machines requiring only semiskilled workers work work- ers Is another cause for lor this change There are many machines machines machines ma ma- chines that require intense detailed detailed detailed de de- de- de tailed watching but no special skill Its It's fairly easy to teach a anew new woman operator r The increasing desire of ofen ioa en to add to the family inco or achieve independence fuS dally daIly also Is listed by the cen 3 cent t bureau as an Important can caul of ot the shift People bult homes or women wanting fL i coats and other luxuries tj tW th husbands' husbands salaries will not tr ply are examples of 01 this fore at work i iThe The social security laws al ar 4 causing more workers In n j higher age limits to leave th work The minor work of or old oil people who have been at a d tailed Job for many x I years cl often be transferred to the shomo si ders of young untrained wo worn Slave Have Store More Time Finally and in the opinion some investigators the most W W. W reason the Increase women workers is due partly T tc the little gadgets around i if house electric irons vacuum cleaners electric S sving mi chines and a host of other thin which make it easier for mi mar n. ned ried women to keep house Th Ti l have more time for lor outside W worl Add to that the fact that fO too companies are processing thir products so that palatable me tl can be prepared In a twink and and youve you've got seven why women are flocking to tt th j labor markets j |
