Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-01-13
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN OF AMERICA
Their Occupation, Ages and Educa-
tion.

The 1902 edition of who's Who in
America" contains the names of 1,551
living men and women together with
brief biogra phical sketches giving, as
far as possible. birth, parentage edu-
cation, marriage and profession. OF
these names ST. are women. ratio OF
iii 2-3. Sixteen out of this number
are we'll known actresses and opera
singers who are Americans neither by
birth nor residence; six are ladies Of
social prominence. wives of dist n
guished men; and one is q. daposed
queen, which leaves 954 to be cons d r.
ed in this paper. In order of numbers
they stand as follows: Authors. in
Guiding novelist, essaylst. writer, poet.
historian, 4S7; artists including paint
er, sculptor engraver, etcher. illustra-
tor, and architect, 1903; educators in
Guiding lecturers, Of; journalists in
GLIDING editor, critic and correspond
ent Is; actresse, 50; musicians. 49, So
cial reformers, including club women
and settlement workers, %: physicians,
p scientists, including naturalists.
II: ministers, including salvation army
and missionary workers. 10; phiIan-
thropists. p; libra risns 9: lawyers, Q;
]
hn seen. amount to five more than the
whole number of persons classified be-
cause that number of women are rem
resented as actively engaged in more
than ono vocation.
The tendency Of successful women to
marriage does not seem great. the per
cent being only "a. In every case. OK
cept the minister and lawyer. the table
shows less than sixty per cent married.
and it seems probable that large
number of the women in these prof@s-
eions married before they entered pro-
fessiOnal life. The journalist comes
next in the per cent married while the
artist falls to AZ per cent. and the ed
ucator runs very little risk-if she con-
siders it risk-her chances Of rnatri-
monv being only 96.3 per cent or a
little over one to four.
Only so per cent gave their age. so
that the conclusions drawn are not
perhaps. of great value. still, if wo-
mans inclination to tell her age does
not increase with age. it would seem
fair to draw the conclusion that the
path to which the worldcall s success
is long and full of obstacles for the
woman who attempts it. The musician
, averaging 40.7 years. and the actress
/ and the artist stand next. They each
average 40 years. The table indicates
that college training has played a
small part in wOman's success. only
AS or 15.5 per cent. The largest per-
centage of college bred women is
found among scientists, ministers and
educators. but even the number of
educators who have had college train
ing is less than half. while in all the
other professions, except the ones al
ready named, the table shows less than
Onefourth to be college women. Some
of these women have taken more than
one degree, and others have studied in
one or more colleges and universities
with out having taken a degree in any
With the exception of the philanthrp-
list the number who were educated in
co-educa tional institutions is in every
sense larger than that of all the wo-
mems colleges cOmbined.-Amanda
Carolyn Northrup in the January
number of Popular Science Monthly.