Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1918 — WOMEN ARE GOOD MECHANICS. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN ARE GOOD MECHANICS.

According to a report of the national industrial conference board, women in wartime employment are showing a remarkable adaptability for machine shop work. The report summarizes information obtained from 131 establishments employing 335,015 men and 49,823 women and including 10,657 women engaged in work formerly performed exclusively by men. Their labor, says the Christian Herald, has ranged from the operation of drill presses ana lathes to coremaking, inspecting and assembling mechanical products and performing many preelse machine operations. In the main it has been confined to the lighter processes requiring rapidity and dexterity, and in such work their output has proved equal to and frequently greater than that of male employees. This was notably true - of women's work in automobile manufacture and in a munition plant manufacturlrtg fuses, where women operatives on drill presses and. milling machines were from 25 to 50 per cent more.rapid than men.