| Show 1 6 r A Girl Clerk Washington Has H B st Ii of All AU Business BusinessWomen ism Women Jobs 1 10 a 0 Days Vacation WE LIKE OUR JOBS x THERE HERE are government e employees in Washington There are men clerks and stenographers steno g ra p hers In Washington P Fens ens L i 0 ons ns an and d c. c x end and more than half of these are women wo The women w who o make as low low as 80 per month and an have to support t tHERE the wives and send children to school on this amount y rv th receive same pay as the men men-an average of per w Many men and women clerks there solve the of ti I w x problem month Women in private offices 75 month w average per living Jiving by getting married marred and both keeping their jobs S. S Sick Sick-I L C k l e less av e or than three fourths what their Government sisters Under the Civil Service Regulations a woman may secure J Jare are There paid aid any job open to a man even that of but blacksmith the There are are women government employees in Washington head hea of the I I s department usually circumvents this ruling by v who make e r r ed r f 1 as high as per year the himself p M 1 I WOO f THIS Tills is another of the series of ar- ar ar artices tic es in which Hardie akin Meakin special Washington correspondent of f this newspaper ne er interviews Uncle Sam and explains exclusively for the read read- readers readers ers of this newspaper tIle the intricate workings of the United States Govern Govern- meat ment In the present article Meakin Makin discloses that more than fifty per cent of Uncle Sams Sam's employees are women md and that they get mens men's pay Another article will follow at an early date Dy By All examinations for the Federal Civil Service regardless of their char acter are arc open to both bolh men and WOe wo men result of this ruling is that the TIlE T details of affairs of the Govern Govern- Government Government ment of the United SUites States arc con con- conducted conducted ducted chiefly by women When you re- re receive your our income tax blanks the chances are aro a woman sent then them to you ou When you write a letter to your our Senator or Congressman It will probably be opened i by a woman bry or stenographer This is true because attracted by the same pay as men receive more than half of the Government employees in Washington women are Two stenographers in Washington ride to work on the same car Their ability G N k t tb b Y 4 Ii 4 pr S 'S s OLDEST 3 Miss Fannie Above Is II oer Eligible to Retire But Dut Prefers to Keep Her Job DI as Guide in Bureau of Engrav ins ing Where She Has Worked 38 Years Year She is 80 Now and experience is on a par One does to the Government offices where she IS paid per month The other goes to a pr private office where she receives 75 per r are the average figures for steno raphers f n t Washington and other jobs are arc pro pro- t It h o 0 r F same Bo e she a gopher r a clerk or tJ any of the other numerous assign assign- assignments t t meats ments on the tax tax- taxpayers taxpayers' t payers payers' pay r 0 lJ t she ets more mono 5 mone money than does docs rw the stenographer t 4 or clerk on the thep p r i ate e payroll A nd what is more L t If she sUcks on the job until she e is x 70 years old pro pro- provide vided vide she sho has as s 's served not less r t P than 15 years she is retired with a ape pe pension sion i s i WAR WORKER R- R About Women Entered the he Service During the ti e COOLIDGE'S W World President War Thi s Coolidge Dictates Dictate to Mrs Mn Berniee Ponton Above She Is His Personal One is Stenographer and g Practically the Only One Who Knows His Everything About Microscopic Slides Slid ea Correspondence u a W e J t. t ff It T t r e r Y Y 0 H 9 U 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL Mrs Mable Walker Is an As As- Assistant Attorney Gen eral era She receives receive the Highest Pay Among Uncle Sams Sam's Women Employees who run our Govern Gavern ment come to Wash Wash- Washington ington from every sec sec- section tion of the country get their jobs and keep them Before the World War there were approximately employees in Washing Washing- Washington ton but of that mum num- number ber only were women Two years later with the extra work brought on by the war the total num- num number number ber of employees had reached the mark with the w women men numbering about 80 80 It was difficult to obtain male clerks and typists at this time so the women got the jobs and protected by the their i r C Civil i v il Service rights and the ruling t ry d r L t it t CUP WINNER bliss Helen Sullivan Is the Navys Navy's Champion Typist She Won the Cup rn Competition with All Other Employees of the Navy Department of Congre continue to hold them The peak number of employees of both bot sexes has gradually been lowered since the th war until until until-at the end of 30 the closing of the Governments Government's fiscal fisca year it was instead of but more women than men remained They live like college e girls doubling up u p in apartments boarding houses and note hotel 1 rooms Even in war time with wo wo- women women men there was no outstanding case cas wherein one of them reached the Iron front pages of the newspapers as a part of a scand 1 True several severa were named re co in divorce proceedings one one dings o or two were picked up on Pennsylvania Ave flue nue for having consumed too much boot boot- bootleg leg during the hysteria following the war va but all in all Uncle Sam points wit with pride to his feminine workers The women who come to Washington Washingto n in a pioneering spirit take their places in i n society about on a par with their positions position s at home or perhaps a bit above their fo fomer for for- former r mer environment They make good money mone ry y an and can afford to dress well Seldom is there n a function diplomatic Congressional al or society but that it has its quota of Government clerks They have nothing to worry about Each year they are arc given iven a Ya- Ya Vacation cation with full pay and if necessary are granted an additional thirty day sick leave The average private stenographer or clerk is lucky luck if she secures a one onee week vacation and a few days days' sick leave The Civil Service divides the women in clerical jobs into six grades The lowest is the under clerk entering the tho service at from 1140 to 1500 annually and the highest of the lesser jobs is that of a Mill Mi Katherine C. C Shea H. H Has ii i v Been neen Giving President Their t Checks on Paydays Payday for Put PutTen Ten Years r j by the President inthis In Inthis this class is Miss Jessie Dell who K started as a clerk in 1899 in the r War Department at 1100 a l r i year and is now drawing r s f as a member of the ilie Civil Service t r r Commission She is the first wo- wo woman wor f r man to hold such an assignment Another instance Js is Mrs Mabel J Walker t who is an assistant Attorney General i c s Th Tho commission does e not us use r trick questions in selecting its s employees It isn't n case so r. r much whether know they the highest mountain in the United r A SUites States or the rho longest river in Europe It is b more of a test to toI I Ir r S q air k i gneiss l en ICI rr ry IT lasso Bes 01 ur laC IDe r p t 1 1 1 f f. f 1 v- v a s L- L ROMANCE United Unite l States Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota Met Mrs Mayme E. E McCaslin a Gov Government Employee and Married Her Many Women Employees tarry Marry and Work Side by Side with Husbands to Doubts Double the Pay Check the principal clerk with from 2100 to 2700 a year ear Gettin Getting into the upper rat rat- ratings ratings ings a junior administrative assistant can draw down as high as a year and never below 2100 An executive of- of officer officer finds the th salary running irons irom to annually No women however so far as the Civil Service records disclose have gone higher than these jobs except those entering the tho scientific and technical branches of the tho service Several have reached big salaried po- po positions positions but not through the Civil Service They come for the most past part from ap ap- see if the they know how to acquire know know- knowledge knowledge ledge and to apply it Many of the women clerks marry and in a great reat many instances the wife keeps right on working The double payroll thus accumulated accounts for many of the new bungalows on the outskirts of Washington Just at present the male clerk Is the theone ono one who deserves the s sympathy He re re- receives receives no more than the woman clerk and may have to support a family on his aver aver- average average age of per month whereas the woman wo wo- woman man clerk may have no expenses except own rl |
