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Show MEN EQUAL THE WOMEN ALSO Women have always been classed as the weaker sex and consequently been honored with the lighter jobs in public life. They have done the clerical work, the stenographic sten-ographic work, they have acted as receptionists and elevator attendants. Very few have been assigned to the positionss of labor considered hard manual labor except ex-cept a few women who have assisted their husbands with the farm work. The war has changed this a lot even as it has changed so many things. We now find the fairer sex engaged as railroad employees, as welders, weld-ers, as auto and airplane mechanics; we find them in many positions considered heretofore as work for the men only. Likewise we have found men taking up the jobs that women once held and they too are giving a good account ac-count of themselves as is evidenced by a news release from England. It stated that one man competing with 1,900 women at a handicrafts exhibition on -Norwhich, obtained a mark of 100 per cent for a home-made bag. Only one of the 1900 women equaled the achievement. |