Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — Women Government Employes. [ARTICLE]

Women Government Employes.

An oflicial of the government printing office was talking the other evening of the personnel of the women employed in the big printery. He said the civil Service rules went into effect at the office just ten years ago. The result has been to give the office a much better class of women workers than those who were appointel prior to that time. “The women in the folding rooms, the bindery and the press room now,” said the official, “are largely of the educated class. Some of them are former school teachers, stenographers and the like, and 1 will add they are a credit to the government service.” The statement was added that it frequently happens that these workers in the printing office are transferred to important clerical positions in the other departments by reason of the high percentage they make in competitive examinations. —Washington Star.