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July 4, 1930
The Butler County Press
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
What is this article about?
Miss Caroline Manning of the US Women's Bureau speaks at a Boston Social Workers' conference about women over 25-30 facing employment barriers due to assumptions of incompetence with machinery, leading to dismissals and unemployment. She argues for giving older women chances on simple factory tasks, citing examples like driving at 50.
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WOMEN BARRED
By Machine When Over 30 Years
Boston.—Women over 25 and 30 years old are finding it increasingly difficult to secure employment, said Miss Caroline Manning of the United States Women's bureau, in a talk before the Social Workers' conference here.
These women are assumed to be incompetent to manipulate machinery and perform other factory functions, said Miss Manning.
Where new mechanical devices have been installed in factories such as the cigar industry, large numbers of old employes have been dismissed and because of this arbitrary age handicap they are contributing to the unemployment problem, she explained.
If a woman can learn to run an airplane at 30 and drive an automobile at 50, said Miss Manning, she should be given a chance to demonstrate her ability to watch an automatic weighing machine or pull a lever that starts or stops a wrapping machine, since most of the modern machinery in factories requires little more attention than this.
To the woman of over 40 forced to seek a job the situation seems almost hopeless, Miss Manning had found from talking to such job applicants.
One 46-year-old woman was reported as saying: "My husband and I seem to have passed the age when we are expected to live."
By Machine When Over 30 Years
Boston.—Women over 25 and 30 years old are finding it increasingly difficult to secure employment, said Miss Caroline Manning of the United States Women's bureau, in a talk before the Social Workers' conference here.
These women are assumed to be incompetent to manipulate machinery and perform other factory functions, said Miss Manning.
Where new mechanical devices have been installed in factories such as the cigar industry, large numbers of old employes have been dismissed and because of this arbitrary age handicap they are contributing to the unemployment problem, she explained.
If a woman can learn to run an airplane at 30 and drive an automobile at 50, said Miss Manning, she should be given a chance to demonstrate her ability to watch an automatic weighing machine or pull a lever that starts or stops a wrapping machine, since most of the modern machinery in factories requires little more attention than this.
To the woman of over 40 forced to seek a job the situation seems almost hopeless, Miss Manning had found from talking to such job applicants.
One 46-year-old woman was reported as saying: "My husband and I seem to have passed the age when we are expected to live."
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
Age Discrimination
Women Employment
Factory Machinery
Unemployment
Social Conference
What entities or persons were involved?
Miss Caroline Manning
Where did it happen?
Boston
Story Details
Key Persons
Miss Caroline Manning
Location
Boston
Story Details
Miss Manning reports on age-based employment discrimination against women over 25-30 in factories, where they are dismissed for new machinery despite capabilities shown in other skills; highlights hopelessness for women over 40 and quotes a 46-year-old applicant's despair.