British Civil Servants to Demand Responsibility London, Dec. 18.
British women civil servants want a share of the higher posts in the three Defence Departments. At present, they are excluded from the Administrative and Executive classes.
"Unwillingness to employ women in these categories is understood to rest upon the idea that, since women do not form a part of the fighting forces, they should not be entrusted with any share of responsibility for the control or equipment of those forces, states the official organ of the National Association of Women Civil Servants.
It adds that "the Civil Air Guard i open to women and plans have been made to recreate the Women's Auxiliary Forces on modern lines. The idea that the Defence Departments are concerned exclusively with males is thus refuted."—Reuter.
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