Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-13
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Other Point of View
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAx.

Said a very successful business woman
TO me recently Il have just come fr5in
conference with the heads Of our Fir u
There were five men there and my a.
We had met 70 discuss how - maxi s.
haif-s -milion-dollar corporation int
miliion-dolsr one, and / was ll'ht
! nj being invited to the conference
! "I was asked because they wan 81 80
opinions and ideas, and as 81 e.
my feminine viewpoint linn 1 20
surprise when. Mt the end OF n
: gestions. our president exclaimed
! like a woman" or course II VAS lit
woman. am woman. and ! a.
/ feminine viewpoint. In places 1t TO 'c3
the masculine one. and whore 81 fai
/ touch. It generally can comprehend
surely, surely It Is different because
! training and heredity ana most o. A'
( facts OF my being are different too.
| In this world there are almost as MAN.
points OF view as there arc mon IN
women; but underneath all there Is ths
human point OF view There are funaa-
mental dissimiarities between the mas
culine and feminine viewpoints, an
there are occasions when the two will
hardly be reconciled and the man vi o
exclaimed. How like womanl' prob
ably had so exclusively masculine a.
angle OF vision that he was narrow and
warped and incapable OF UNDERSTANDING
even another mans attitude toward
things u It were very disslmilar from
his own.
II has often been said a woman has no
sense OF humor. Whoever says Il prob
ably has none for. though woman is
likely 90 take herself a little too seri-
ously. still she can see most OF the fun
in life when Il does not affect her per-
sonAlly
Frequently women are not good
sports in that they cannot face defeat.
but out OF this fault comes a virtue. for
they will not acknowledge OF accept de-
feat. and they sometimes force the inpos-
sible to become possible. The feminine
unwillingness to see things es they
are may lead TO victory in the realm
Of what may be. And then a. men. by
force and determination and active on
Eaught. bend circumstances to their wiIl
90 women. by ignoring failure. stumble
into victory.
Feminine instinct IL. after all, Just q
certain greater fineness In women and a
certain ability to put themselves IN sym
pathetic tune with things. A woman
may sense . situation and adjust her
Dslf 20 It and Il to her by delicate COM
promise. whore Q man. By practical force.
WIN work It out 70 an issue. 80 some Of
thu best work In the world is done when
men and women work hand-in-hand.
Feminine instinct plus masculine in
sight, feminine finensss plus masculine
force. feminine sympathy plus masculine
dominance make a wonderful combina-
ton whereby worlds may be conquered
There IN a nsw partnership Of men
and women today IN the world OF work.
It u here and It has como TO stay. II
viii, work out best II each works natur-
ally along the lines Of their inherited
abilities ana understandings with an ac-
ocptanoe Of the fact that the shortcom-
ings OF one sex are counterbalanced by
the special abilities Of the other and
that each has much 70 give and take.
The business world IL no place for
] ooQuetry or sex-oonsciousnesB or the
play OF emotion II has TO do with men,
talities and with the ability to work.
Man must expect woman to do her
work like q woman and woman certainly
must accept the fact that mans think
ing win be along the lines OF his inherited
prejudioass trainings and abilities.