ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the universities as producers of male graduates. As we move into the inter-war years, however, it becomes necessary to consider a parallel movement, that of the rise of the university education of women and particularly the reception of these female graduates into business and industry. More important than the university women in science, however, was their enormous increase in industrial welfare work during the war. The universities played an important role in this development, particularly by establishing university settlements which were ideal forms of training for girls interested in this kind of social work. A Business and University Committee was formed to act as a link between industry, commerce, and the universities in so far as the interests of women were concerned. The British Federation of University Women had a Business and Industry Committee at least from 1932 which may have been a continuation.
