284 GAEDENING FOE WOMEN 



OBJECTS OP THE CENTRAL BUREAU 



1. To prevent unemplovment, and tlie evils resulting 

 therefrom. 



2. To help women, especially those of good education, 

 to help themselves, by guiding them into suitable permanent 

 work. 



3. To promote the training of the unprepared, and thus 

 raise the general standard of efficiency. 



4. To maintain records of women desiring employ- 

 ment, and of employers having vacancies. 



5. To collect and circulate information as to various 

 occupations. 



6. To study and record the fluctuations of demand and 

 supply in various occupations. 



7. To publish advertisement lists, newspapers, and other 

 printed matter, by which the purposes of the society may 

 be advanced. 



8. To promote and co-operate with other bureaus and 

 societies having objects wholly or partly similar. 



Nature of the Work. — ^The work of the Central Bureau 

 consists largely in counteracting those evils of social 

 prejudice and defective training which have hitherto 

 prevented many women of the educated class from being 

 able to earn their own livelihood. It therefore includes 

 not only what is ordinarily understood to be the work 

 of an employment registry, but also the more laborious 

 and less immediately remunerative business of investi- 

 gating possible openings for employment, promoting 

 sound schemes for apprenticeship and training, and so 

 advising and helping women as to enable them to make 



