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Show i niii:!ii!;iiiin!!!iiii!!!!:;;!!!i::ii!iii!!;in!L' 1 THE GIRL ON THE JOB How to Succeed How to Get E i E Ahead Hew to Make Good a I By JESSIE ROBERTS jjj i ?iiiuiiiiiiiiiiimi!!!ii!i:ii;!:i:i;;;!!:;ni:ii- XOW THE POKE WO 31 AX : BEFORE the war the forewomai ! was unl;nown ; now she is tienm : ing increasingly common in the great industries, especially those that employ em-ploy large mmiLvrs of girls, hi some of these plants, like that of the Artificial Artifi-cial Limb company, women are. .admitted .admit-ted to the foreman training classes on an equal fooling with the men. There are two types of forewomen, called the instructional and theproduc-tional. theproduc-tional. Women xvho ate working in the plant are those who usually get these appointments, anil it is an incitement in-citement to women to go to work in these large industrial establishments that was lacking before. One of the great questions for women wom-en today is that of equal opportunity. It runs hand in hand with the one concerning equal pay. The fact that hardly any bl factory or mill employing employ-ing women is now without its forewoman forewom-an shows that progress Is being made. ) Every woman should work toward increasing in-creasing these opportunities for her sex. Many industries are employing more and more women in their regular work, especially factories where delicate deli-cate work has to be done, such as the assembling nY adding machines-, electric elec-tric appliances and the like. And women wom-en are gradually ousting men from the watch-making industry, so much better bet-ter is their ability to handle the minute parts used. The fact is that the girl of nineteen or twenty has become the typical watchmaker of the country. Where the women have a chance to prove themselves they are making good. They will get more chances and it sepms likely ,that they will contiuue to make good. There is a real future for the ambitious woman in the industries indus-tries of the country today. (Copj'right.) |