CHAPTER XVII 



THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN FORESTRY — continued 



The Executive or Supervising Branch of Forest 



Work 

 In the previous article consideration is given to the 

 question of the employment of women and girls in 

 certain branches of the manual part of forestry work 

 in which, so far, men and boys have been solely 

 employed in this country. It was there mentioned 

 that it might prove of advantage to consider the 

 problem of openings for women in the higher branches 

 of forestry — that is, openings in the executive line. 



That this question of the employment of women in 

 work connected with the soil is already receiving 

 attention will be apparent from an article in Country 

 Life (May 29, 1915), by Miss Haldane, entitled " Edu- 

 cating Girls for Country Life." The article in question 

 deals chiefly with the education of girls in dairy work, 

 poultry farming, and gardening. There is an interest- 

 ing allusion to forestry, however. On this subject Mi9« 

 Haldane writes : 



'* I know a capital young * forestress ' who, after 

 learning gardening, begged to be allowed to attend the 

 forestry lectures with her father ; and there are some 

 possibilities here, though, naturally, limitations also.*' 



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