's Industries, the salary of
the post being fixed at L450. A Senior Investigator's Assistant was
also appointed at a salary of L120-10-L200, but the salary has now
been increased to L200-L300. These posts are open only to University
women with high honours.

The Senior Investigator, with the help of her Assistant, undertakes
special enquiries into the conditions in women's industries. Perhaps
her most important function is to originate investigations concerning
women, which will yield information likely to be useful to the
Department in the future, when some particular question comes up for
discussion or decision. For instance, when the question of bringing
laundries within the scope of the Trade Boards Act was under
discussion, the investigations previously made by the Women
Investigators into wages and conditions proved invaluable.

There are also three Women Investigators appointed in connection
with the Trade Boards. Their duty is to assist in the collection of
information relating to the scheduled trades, in all of which a large
number of women is employed. They may be called upon to help in the
preliminary work involved in setting up new Trade Boards. They explain
as far as necessary the provisions of the Act to the working women
concerned get nominations of workers to sit on those Boards and
otherwise assist the Boards in carrying out their functions. They also
conduct inspections to see that the law is carried out.

All these appointments are made by the President of the Board of Trade
on the recommendation of the Civil Service Commissioners.

_Labour Exchanges_

The establishment of Labour Exchanges under the Board of Trade some
years ago gave occasion for the appointment of a considerable number
of women to responsible posts. On the organising staff at the Central
Office there is a Principal Woman Officer at L400-15-L450, who is
responsible for the organisation of the women's work in all the Labour
Exchanges. She has an Assistant at L150-L7, 10s.--L200. A woman also
acts as Secretary to the large London Juvenile Advisory Committee. She
has the acting rank of an Assistant Divisional Officer, although her
salary (L300-15-L400) is less than that received by men Assistant
Divisional Officers.

There are nine Senior Organising Officers with salaries of
L250-10-L350, six of whom are women. The three men holding these
appointments deal with Juvenile work only, whereas some of the women
are in charge of both W