Captain TERRELLasked the Minister of Labour if he has any statistics to show 1580W the extent to which females are still replacing men in work done by the latter before the War; if he is aware that the substitution is a cause of male unemployment; and that the work done by females before the War is now not at all or imperfectly done, although their sex is the best fitted to do it?
§ Sir M. BARLOWI regret that there are no statistics showing the extent to which females are still replacing men in work done by the latter before the War. It seems probable, however, that in some occupations—for example, among clerks and shop assistants—the proportion of females employed is appreciably greater than before the War.