Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-14
WOMAN
Ineffciency a Factor in Lou Wages

"NTARRIAGE is the greatest handicar
Ifl to a career" declared strong
minded and unattached lady tho other
day. mo woman who Is married can
really give UP her whole time and thought
TO the profession she may wish to follow
For the selfshness Of her husband VIII
certainly step in and prove hindrance TO
her. Then the problematical children form
yet another difficulty for no woman can
look after children. home and husband
and at the same time do really good out
side work"
The truth OF these statements has been
refuted so frequently that cases need not
here be cited where women have not only
proved successful wives and mothers,
but, at the same time, have followed ca
reers bringing them into public proml-
nence Women doctors, women lawyers
women writer's. artists business women
ali refute the idea that the married
woman is Incapable Of doing more than
one thing at a time, or to be accurate
quite half a dozen distinct and separate
things.
am convinced that marriage In itself
Is not suficient 10 satisfy the normal In
telligent woman. She ought to have some
special outside interest, something beyond
homo and husband and children. 1t Is
lnmentable to see so many women who
before marriage have been clever. inter-
esting. up-to-date. independent, suddenly
submerge their own individuality In that
OF the husband and virtually cease to
be an ego at all. Just because a woman
loves a man is no reason why she should
lose her own personality and cease TO
hold any opinions apart from his. But
that is too often the case. And 1t is so
desperately bad for the men, too. 1t GER
taInly tends to make them especially vain
oh. these complacent small-minded lit
tie husbands, who seek to rule their
wives minds with rod of iron! How in
tolerant they are Of feminine opinion;
how arrogant where any woman is con
cerned! And it is the wives who are
largely responsible for this attitude.
II believe that all women should work."
declared prominent New York business
woman recently; "there is no reason why |
women can't try to do everything that |
men do. And women should work for |
their living just as men do now They |
will have more respect for themselves,
their husbands will have more respect |
for them, and so will their children.
man loves woman just because she is
an Independent, thinking being, and i'm
mediately he marries her she becomes
something else. He is cheated In the
same way. l don't think that any woman
who has made a name for herself should .
change it because she is fond OF man.
Why should she give up the advertising
advantage that lies in the name she has
made for hcrself?"
This business woman, however Is GER
tain that only the exceptional woman is
big-minded enough to go in for a career
in the whole-hearted way men do. The
average working woman Of today is in
efficient" she says. only the exceptional
woman. who works because she wants to-
is OF any great moment"
But even when all women work, as
Work lney must the lhlerloIitS VI al put
the exceptional woman will not be al
tered. And why will they continue to be
inferior in accomplishment to men?
That's easy They don't know how and
they won't learn how to really work. It's
Just ar I said They aren't bis-minded.
The women who are in business today
are there because they have to; because
in lot OF cases somebody is dependent
upon them. And just as the man who
was daring and had initiative before he
was married loses those qualities
because no must take care of his wife