Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry.
(ls. 6d. net.)—The War Cabinet Committee have issued a Report on Women's Industry, of which the scope and thoroughness will render it not only invaluable to the country at a moment when the whole question is urgently demanding attention, but historically important as evidence of the tremendous changes in the relation of women to labour which have occurred during the past four years. The opening chapters give an exhaustive survey of these relations before the war, and provide statistics dealing with the standard of wages then prevailing. Later sections are concerned with the position of women in occupations now recognized as open to either sex ; and some very interesting pages are devoted to the results of inquiry into the causes of low rates of payment to women. The recommendations of the Committee with regard to the wage question are based, approxi- mately, on the principle of " equal pay for equal work " ; and proposals are made with a view to safeguarding the health of women workers. The volume closes with a Minority Report by Mrs. Sidney Webb, and a Note in which Sir William Mackenzie discusses certain points of disagreement with his colleagues.
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