The National War Labor Board warned employers last week that it would not approve discriminations against workers because of sex. This resulted from the Board's decision in a trial case brought by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. of Providence (makers of pumps), who refused to pay their 600 to 700 women employes more than 80% as much as men.
Said the panel that heard the case: "The idea of 80% efficiency of women has evolved from a biological phenomenon which applies only to a period of time and not to relative efficiency and competence at other times. There is no proof, scientific...
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