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Show WOMEN SLOWER THAN MEN Double the Number Required in New York Banks, But They Are More Methodical. There Is at present no woman officer offi-cer of a New York city bank, and only one in New Jersey, but if the war lasts long enough it may well be, as It is in Canada now, that the banks will virtually be run by women. Already, Al-ready, it is .estimated, 20,000 women have been taken on in the Wall street district since the United States entered en-tered the war last April, says the New York Evening Post. Women are slow'r, but more care-fut, care-fut, said an official of the Mechanics and Metals bank, so, although twice as many women as men are needed to do the same amount of work, the bank loses no money on extra salaries, because the women save hundreds of dollars which had to be paid to the clearing house for the men's mistakes. Each mistake costs .$1 and the records show that sometimes men's mistakes cost $25 or $30 a week. The average downtown bank has lost 20 per cent of its men and taken on 40 per cent women. The Mechanics Mechan-ics and Metals bank now has 60 women and they are being taken on by tens or twenties each week. So far these 00 women are taking the places of only 30 men, which shows the difference in rapidity, but the official offi-cial of the bank pointed out that it would be a serious problem when the ' men came home for their jobs. "Our hope is," he said, "that Hie business will be big enough then to accommodate them all." |