RT Journal
T1 LOndon letter
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD October 4
VO 73
IS 14
SP 1075
OP 1075
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610400053025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610400053025
AB Women in Industry 
    Last September the prime minister appointed a war cabinet committee on women in industry. To the committee Dr. Janet Campbell, medical officer to the board of education, presented an able memorandum. Her conclusions are as follows: The average woman is physically weaker than the average man. She cannot compete with him satisfactorily in operations requiring considerable physical strength, while competition in operations of a less arduous but still exacting character may be detrimental to her health in that her power of endurance and her reserve energy are usually less than a man's; and she is often compelled to spend time and strength on domestic tasks which do not fall to his lot. The second fundamental physiologic difference is potential or actual motherhood. This governs to a large extent her industrial power, efficiency and value, and prevents equal competition with men in industry. The conditions under which men