The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-18
FINDING JOBS FOR
 EDUCATED WOMEN
College Graduates Attack Economic Problem = h. tercollegiate Bureau of Occupations-New Work to Start in Fall.
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 "The economic paradox that con- fronts women in general" writes Mrs. George Haven Putnam, 'is especially
 uncompromising for the lady. In de-
 fance of the axiom that he who works, eats, the lady who works has less to
 eat than the lady who does not.'' In
 spite of this discoura ging outlook, a
 new organization is to enter the field of practical economies in September
 to help women who want to work at professions other than teaching to find the work that wants them.
 This does not pretend to be new
 and original schems. It is one of those ideas that the air and the in terms of the ''jobless man, and the manless job," but there are cer- tain aspects of this project that are different from anything that has been tried before. It is the first time that graduates of the women's colleges of a certain locality have made common cause in plan to help all specially equipped women whether they do, or do not, hold college degrees.
 Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Rad cliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley are the Alumnae Associations whose representatives, so far, make up the Board of Directors of the new bureau. They will employ paid secretary and assistants. The objects of the bureau will be:
 1 To secure employment for college and other specially equipped women.
 To investigate and do all in it's power to increase their efficiency in occupations.
 3 To establish close connections with the colleges, especially in advis- ing and informing undergraduates concerning occupations.
 4 To insure, in every way. free, wise, choice of occupation.
 The bureau will charge a small fee, the amount of which has not yet been determined, and a percentage of the first months salary. It aims, in time, to become self supporting. It will differ from any of the agen- cies at present in existence in New York under private ownership, as any money which it may eventually earn will be turned back to extend the work of the bureau.
 Although calls for teachers will be filled when they come, the bureau will cOnfine its main emphasis and effort upon work other than teaching, as 1t is considered that the teachers agen- cies, already in the field are doing efficient work The Bureau of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union will not be open for the regis tration of graduates of high schools, as the Vocation Committees of the Public Schools are already caring for them. The women who are not col lege graduates whose registration will be accepted are architects, lawyers, bacterioligtsts, doctors, nurses, grad uates of schools of music or design, trained journalists, secretaries. socially gifted women who are willing to De- come companions, and women whose experience would equip them for exc cutive positions. institutional manage ment or welfare work. An effort will be made to obtain part time work for those who have a portion of their time occupied.
 Arrangements for close cooperation have been made with all of the col lege Appointment Bureaus, the Boston bureau, and the agencies of the Young Womens Christian Association.
 That the need for such a bureau is generally felt is shown. by the fact that, once started, the scheme seemed to move of it's own momentum. Groups of graduates in each of tre colleges had been tumbled out un- backed, and unprepared, into the labor market. They had felt the bewilder- ment of the new alumna who wants to do something but does not know exactly what and had found them- selves thrust either into teaching, be- cause that was the only form of oc- cupation with which there was any ex- isting machinery to connect them; or else they had had to waste several years in finding out what they did want to do and how to go at it. There were married women who were work ing because they wanted to, and those who were working because they had to; and there were others who were y1nf oo al y1yh n were, nevertheless, interested in the difficulties of those whe were. In short, the founders of the bureau saw that they would have support be- hind them which was representative of all of the strong and helpful types of the college graduate.
 The chairman of the Board of Di- rectors is Mary Abby Van Kleeck who, while conducting investiga tions on women's work, came to the conclu- sion that the position of the college graduate in the world of paid work was chaotic.
 In most of the women's college there exist appointment bureaus that do what they can in finding work for their own graduates, but as most of the colleges are not situa ted in large cities, they have difficulty in inves- tigating the calls they receive. More over, few of the alumnae who have experience register with them. These bureaus will find the cooperation of a New York office a great help.
 It is therefore IS an outpost of the colleges, aiming to help in directing the energy which the colleges have done so much to stimulate, that this | bureau is founded. It is a significant l thing that not only in New York, but | all over the United States, woman | are waking up to a realization of the l amateur way they have gone about | peddling their wares. While this New York Bureau is only an experiment | station. it is hoped that, in time, there l will be chain of bureaus in all of | the large cities, conducted by the | alumnae of the colleges, for the bene- l fit of all women who have trained l themselves for any specific line of |