Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — Women as Accountants. [ARTICLE]

Women as Accountants.

Pour or five years ago I asked ,M. Magnan, who had just retired from the governorship of the Bahk of France, what he thought of the lady clerks and other employees there. He had a better opinion of them than of their brother employees. It greatly grieved him that he could not apply the principle of an equal wage for an equal task executed in a way that left nothing to be desired. He knew but very few cases of employees being guilty of levity or inattention or slothfulness in tbe discharge of their functions. They took pleasure in doing their best, apart from the hope of promotion. M. Magnan employed women exclusively as sorters of bank notes. They worked quickly and their fingers had an unerring touch In feeling the difference between a bad and a good note. The director of the sorting department (a man) never kfiew the discerning tact of a sorteress to be at fault. ♦A» accountants he thought the average woman better than the average man, both in quickness and accuracy in calculation. —Paris Letter to London Truth.