Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World WarDaggett, Mabel Potter
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Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World War
Daggett, Mabel Potter
Women -- Employment; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
In the field of science the opposing forces are even more steadily
falling back before the advancing woman movement. One of the most
conservative bodies, the Royal Astronomical Society of England, has
added a clause to its charter permitting women to become fellows. The
Royal Institute of British Architects has also decided to accept women
as fellows and in 1917 the Architectural Association for the first time
opened its doors to women students. Germany even has several women
architects employed in military service, among them Princess Victoria
of Bentheim. Russia, in 1916, admitted women to architecture and
engineering.
Chemistry is distinctly calling women in all lands. Sheffield
University, England, in 1916 announced for the first time courses in
the metallurgical department for training girls as steel chemists to
replace young men who have been “combed out” of Sheffield’s large
industrial works. Firms in Leeds, Bradford and South Wales are filling
similar vacancies with women. Bedford College of London University
had last year started a propaganda to induce young women to study
chemistry. In 1916 there were some twelve graduates in the chemical
department and the college received applications from the industrial
world for no less than 100 women chemists. So insistent was the demand
that even Woolwich Arsenal was willing to take a graduate without
waiting for her to get her degree. Women are wanted too in physics
and bacteriology. A London University woman has been appointed to a
position at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington and there
were last year, at this one university, offers of twenty positions for
women physicists that could not be filled. All over the world now,
in trade journals are beginning to appear advertisements for women
chemists and physicists.
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