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142 executive offices, women play their part, but their part is almost without exception in the clerical end.

If I were to count only pilots, there would be not one woman discovered in the cockpit of any scheduled airplane. (By scheduled I mean time­-table operated, i.e. the regular service of aircraft leaving a port at a given time to arrive at another similarly.) However, there are women who do earn their living by flying. They sell airplanes, they ferry planes about the country, they carry pas­sengers, they instruct, they fly in the promotion department of a few companies who use airplanes for advertising and for transporting their execu­tives.

As to special positions, there are a number worthy of mention. Several women own or man­age airports; several conduct schools, alone or with their husbands; several hold traffic positions of varying importance; one designs the interiors of passenger airliners. There are two women exami­ners in the medical staff of the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. A number of women are associated with the journals of the trade. One conducts a special page, another is assistant editor, others write articles for use inside and outside this special field. There are one or two women pub­licity writers and of course many touch aviation through advertising. One of the most able and accurate artists on aircraft drawing for advertising (or any other work for that matter) is a woman. Two airlines employ women as hostesses on their