Women and War Work eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 167 pages of information about Women and War Work.

Women and War Work eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 167 pages of information about Women and War Work.

To find the person and the post and to put them together is its fascinating and admirably done task.

The organization done by women in Britain has been notable and admirable.

I can only touch on some of it and must leave out much, but it is worth while noting that there has been very little overlapping in the work.  The total percentage of overlapping was estimated by the War Charities Committee on their investigation at 10 per cent and of that only a very small amount was due to women.

WOMEN HAVE SERVED OR ARE SERVING ON THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES.

Belgian Refugees’ Committee. 1914.

Clerical and Commercial Occupation Committee, do (Scotland.) 1915.

Disabled Officers and Men.

Education After the War.  April, 1916.

Educational Reform. (August, 1916.)

Food, Committee of Inquiry Into High Cost of—­June, 1916.

Advisory Committee on Women in Industry.  March, 1916.

Labor Commission to Deal with Industrial Unrest. (Ministry of Labor.)
June, 1917.

Munitions Central Labor Supply Committee.

Munitions, Arbitration Tribunals.

Munitions, Committee on the Supply and Organization of Women’s Service in Canteens, Hostels, Clubs, etc.  December, 1916.

Naval and Military War Pensions Statutory Committee.  January, 1916.

Nurses, Supply of—­October, 1916.

Polish Victims’ Relief Fund.

Prevention and Relief of Distress. 1914.

Professional Classes Sub-Committee.

Prisoners of War Help Committee.

Reconstruction Committee. (To advise the Government on the many national problems which will arise at the end of the war.) 1916.

Shops:  Committee of Inquiry, to Consider Conditions of Retail Trade to
Secure the Enlistment of Men. (November, 1915.)

Teachers’ Salaries.  Departmental Committee of Enquiry.  June, 1917.

War Charities.  April, 1916.

National War Savings Committee.  April, 1916.

COMMITTEES EXCLUSIVELY COMPOSED OF WOMEN.

Committee, Report on Joint Standing Industrial Councils. 1917.

Women’s Wages Committee. 1917.

Central Committee on Women’s Employment. 1914.

Drinking Among Women, Committee of Enquiry.  November, 1915.

There are also two women on the—­

Executive Committee of National Relief Fund.

Ministry of Food has two women Co-Directors—­

  Mrs. C.S.  Peel
  Mrs. Pember Reeves

HOSPITALS—­RED CROSS—­V.A.D.

  “Come, ye blessed of my Father;
  I was sick and ye visited me.”

—­Matt., Chap. 25.

  “A lady with a lamp shall stand
  In the great history of the land,
  A noble type of good
  Heroic womanhood.”

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