Publications.—The Central Bureau publishes Women’s Employment (price 1d., post free, 1½d.). The issue of this publication, which appears on the first Friday in the month, contains articles on employment subjects, written by experts, together with advertisements, and information as to training. Intermediate lists of vacant situations and workers disengaged are published fortnightly at the same price. Women’s Employment (including the intermediate Lists) may also be obtained from the Secretary of the Central Bureau on payment of 3s. per annum. The Central Bureau has also published a pamphlet entitled the Finger Post (price 1s. 6d.), containing 70 articles, written by experts, on professions for educated women.
WOMEN’S INSTITUTE,
92, Victoria Street, London, S.W.
Here, information is given of every kind upon social subjects, training for professions, board, education, etc. A member is entitled to have six questions a year answered free; non-members pay a small fee. Recreations of various sorts are also given, and three programmes are issued yearly of lectures, conferences, debates, social and musical afternoons and evenings. The library is well provided with books on subjects of interest to women, and on sociology.
The institute was founded in 1897, in the hope, which has already been fulfilled, that it might be able to provide something of the nature of a central office or “clearing house” of the various departments of woman’s work which are now scattered over the whole field of English social life. It is no part of the aim of the institute itself to take up any department of work in competition with existing societies, much less to interfere in any way with their management. Its object is rather to make the work of existing societies better known, through its Information Bureau, through the circulation of literature, through meetings and conferences held within its walls, and lastly, by bringing the workers in one department into touch with those in another, by means of frequent social gatherings.
WHAT THE INSTITUTE OFFERS TO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
The social side of the institute has been organised with the double object:—
1. Of bringing workers into friendly communication.
2. Of offering to isolated workers some of the recreation to which all workers are entitled.