Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started off by barnstorming Munich. During one address, a spectator demanded "Why don't you go home to your kitchen and cook-pot?" Miss Brucher constantly campaigned that women, ousted from politics under Hitler, should enter the government field...
...fashion show and sightseeing, the bankers reelected Mrs. Bernice D. Parks, 45, president. Mrs. Parks started in as a $110-a-month secretary, is now assistant treasurer of Boston's Provident Institution for Savings, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the country. She thinks that women are right at home in banking. After all, she says: "Seventy percent of the wealth of this country is in the hands of women...
...Though women have added a few feminine frills to the countinghouse, complete acceptance of women in the fusty man-world of banking is a long way off. (Even the San Francisco newspapers could not quite accept them; they covered A.B.W.'s doings on the society pages.) Sighed one A.B.W.-delegate last week: "They're learning to respect us-but they still snicker behind our backs...
...percent of all bank executive jobs-and 60% of all bank jobs high & low-are held by women. Among the executives are 19 board chairmen, 117 presidents, 300 vice presidents...
When she makes a visit to the temple in Jerusalem, she gets a premonition of her destiny in the words of an aged visionary who points a bony finger at Miriam and cries: "Mark her well, you women . . . From her womb shall Israel's Redeemer come...