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Show DISCOVERING WOMEN'S ABILITIES Many war plants in the United States are studying every job to see whether the man on it can be replaced by a woman. wo-man. Wherever it is determined a woman could take over, the man is made available for some other job which only a man can do. This is one of the measures which the War Manpower commission is usefully promoting, so employers can obtain fullest skills. Real chances from the standpoint of future careers are opening for Women, and this fact may be of incalculable importance im-portance in the postwar world. The War Manpower commission commis-sion reports it has surveyed 1,900 jobs and found only 56 that women could not handle. Shipyards are proving one of the principal zones where the hitherto closed door is being battered down. In October of 1939 only 36 women were found by the census as productive produc-tive workers in the shipyards of the country, the National Women's Trade Union league reports. By January of 1943 the shipyards had employed nearly 55,000 women, the league adds, and quotes estimates that the total by the end of this year will be 400,000. |