Foreign Educated Chinese Are Supplanting Local Typists CInterviow with Miss Elsie Anderson, Employment Secretary, Inter~ ational ¥.W.C.A)
Thirty-nine nationalities are be found represented in the 270 names now listed in the' Employ ment Bureau of the International Y.W.C.A. in Shanghai This fact places ina nutshell the situation as regards employment of women in this town, and should supply the answer so often asked in Europe and America, "Why not t) my luck in Shanghai Until recently Shanghai was a happy hunting ground for stenographers and others seeking employment and a chance to see something of the world at the same time. To-day this pleasant combination is fast receding into the background lof possibilities. Girls come here hopeful and full of enthusiasm over their first glimpse of the Far East. They are soon plunged into despair over the unrequited search for work, at Toast for work that will be well paid.
Helping One Another otSyaTO, gf Sh, tntne into ment and of" their being. reduc-a ris seeking emplos-
fed to the lowest financial ebb. the S-W.CA. hag instituted " Helping Fund, subscribed by girls in Toyment for the acsitance of their lege fortunate friends.
"Not only is it becoming inereasingly hard to find positions for girls trained at home vand coming to Shanghai to seek for work, but, as time is proving, it is also becoming note and more difficult for locally educated girls to obtain employment mani years of the, Shanghat born writing, the standby for
girl, is beginning to be done Educated Chinese.
Other than such mechanical office work, there seems to be little that the girl, falling under one of these
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