New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
10Y IN WORK MAKES
FOR REAL EFFICIENCY
This is Conclusion Reached by intercollegiate
Bureau of Occupations After Apprenticeship of
Fitting Graduates to Jobs They Liked

An art for every woman and every wom-
q, al her art.
rhot is the ideal Of the intercollegiate
,.,rnou of Occupations. which has just
20 public its first report based upon
-. evperiences Of nineteen months in
ding positions for college women.
The time has long since gone by when a
NAN who was forced TO earn her own
ling had to choose between teaching
Ia taking boarders. The time has gone
So too though not so long since. when
,bs self-supporting woman was forced
,n,o the "reglar" professions, teaching,
~nrsing and typewriting. because she did
.,t know how TO go TO work to find any
a,bhr kind of work. 1t is the mission OF
,hs bureau to find for the girl who hates
,n,cbing the kind of work she loves.
rhere are more than sixty avenues of
nscape from the pedagogical nut. Into one
~ these her feet were TO skip with the
came 10Y that the artist follows the ar
,s,,c path, the musician the musical path
.,o the born cook" the road TO domestic
science.
10y MAKES FOR EFFICIENCY.
cart for some Of us may be only sell
ing groceries or ribbons, or ii may be
sirscting the business of huge corpora
ton or creating landscape gardens, says
vlss Mary Van Kleek. director Of the bu
reau when women are free TO choose
the occupation which will give them Joy
society will benefit as well as they. We
are not beginning TO make half the use
NJ women that we could. just because we
have never before considered what work
each woman could do most efficiently.
Every woman, / believe. should at
come time in her life earn wages outside
O, the home. Little girls at school should
look forward TO earning their living, just
IS they look forward TO having homes OF
their own at another period Of their lives.
In the majority of cases, of course.
mother with little children would not be
expected TO earn wages, because children
need not only physical care, but the COM
panonship which none but their mother
can give them Before marriage and after
the children are grown up there is no rea-
son why the woman who wants TO should
not engage IN ner art. ~ iAohO 'h''
possble the conditions of industry will
have 10 he more flexible than they are at
present. Women have already made some
changes in the conduct of the industrial
world. however. and these other changes
will come about as soon as they are de-
manded.
INVESTIGATIONS.
The problem of women in industry. OF
course. includes women OF all classes
This bureau deals only with women Of
college training. In order to do the most
Efficient service for them We are about TO
make complete investigation of the con-
dtions surrounding college women in the
business world This has never been done
Systematically. Individual colleges have
studied the histories Of their own gradu-
stes and made reports TO the world, but
these reports have never been made upon
a uniform scale with other colleges Some
have been lacking in one detail. some IN
others. None Of the reports has given
al the information We consider neces-
sary for a comprehensive study Of the
field.
Therefore we are very proud 10 an