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Rh large cabin planes. Everyone is familiar with the number of women who manage travel bureaus throughout the country. Most of these handle air­line tickets now, and there is one with a feminine owner which caters only to air travelers.

Despite the number and variety of those posi­tions, it must be admitted there is definite prejudice against women in certain departments. Possibly it is no greater than in other industries. At any rate, I shall not attempt to go into details concerning it except in regard to actual flying. There I think some explanation might be of interest, as training, practise and tradition are involved.

Since the early days of flying not many women have received as adequate training as men. The best schools in many ways at least, are the Army and Navy, and they, of course, are closed to women. Commercial institutions until recently apparently did not particularly welcome feminine students and had little conscience about their adequate instruc­tion.

It has always seemed to me that boys and girls are educated very differently. Even from the early grades, they take different subjects. For instance, boys are usually put into woodworking classes, and girls into sewing or cooking—willy-nilly. I know many boys who should, I am sure, be making pies and girls who are much better fitted for manual training than domestic science. Too often little at­tention is paid to individual talent. Instead, edu­cation goes on dividing people according to their