The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-23
Although Jobs Seem Hard to Find
Investigators Say Opportunities for
Women Never Were Wider

they want them II equipped with the
professional, knowledge. The college
degree is by no means a substitute for
technical training.
Another bubble that should be
pricked is the fond illusion that
travelling companions are in grea.
demand. Now this is as curious an
obsession as that regarding the pri-
vate secretaryship. Girls seem to be-
lieve that rich mi are standing
three rows deep demanding company
on their travels. Quite the reverse Is
true. You see. women of means can
always select any one Of a dozen from
their own immediate families to ac-
company them on their journeyings
about the country. Now and then we
have an inquiry for a school chape-
ron or for some one to accompany a
visitor in town to the shops or to see
the sights, but a girl couldn't possibly
support herself by ii.
"A woman can sometimes get a posi-
ton during the summer as agent to
rganiZe the work of institutions or to
~inaugurate a campaign to raise funds.
sometimes this is done on a commits
sion basis n again ii is a straight
salaried position. For secretaries with
technical training to assist doctors in
their scientific research, lawyers in
their field and to act as translators
in the foreign departments Of banks
there is a good demand always and
each year girls are specializing in
some one of these various fields with
gratifying. results"
III, ,,o, 4 A.
year round, is toward specialization,
and in this field Miss Mary Snow. the
cheerful presiding genius Of the voca-
tional end of the intercollegiate bu-
reau, is opening VI new and untried
fields daily. She has unearthed a per-
feet gold mine in the way of welcome
and good prospects in the Health De-
partment over which she is quite en-
t%husiastic.
1T is perfectly delightful says
Miss Snow, who is an ardent suf-
fragist, ito see the nice balance OF
feeling hat exists in the Health De-
partment as regards the employment
OF women. The interest seems about
equally divided and there are many
new and untried opportunities for
women with a knowledge Of technique
in meteorological work.
Making out hospital records offers
a fertile field for ONE The work
includes making a history of each
patient, which is then filed and in
dexed according to a system. Belle
vue Hospital is conducting a school for
that purpose.
Women are finding employment In
the offices of D~atholOgiStS I'm the hos
pitals and as anatomists in schools
of medicine. II a girl can draw she
adds materially to her value. The
salary for this work is from $500 to
1900. Drawing anatomical charts
IS one of the most valued of gifts for
a woma to present II she wishes to
he employed in any department Of
medicine.
THE advertising field is being en-
tered by woman just because being
largely the consumer she seems to
know how to get the thing across to
the public. Women's attention must
he caught and men can't always do
it; the women generally can
There is a varied field in library
work. The banking houses Of the
financial district have splondid!y
equipped Libraries which take the
time of a trained librarian and a corps
Of assistants. Allied with the library
are filing departments where letters
are kept track of under subject
heads. Such a filing has all
the dignity Of a good library. The
salary OF a principal Is about $4,000,
and that Of assistants $50 a month"