Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-05
Married Women
H1ve a Place
IN Business
ny DOROTHY ny.


think that they should have privileged
way and everybody should got out Of
their path.
The sight Of married woman. for
instance, doing work for which she gets
paid Is az mnddening TO many WORKING
women NJ n waving a red flag before
the eyes OF a bull, There Ia never q
day that don't get half dozen ifate
letters asking mo 10 writo mn article
telling the woman who has got hus-
band and homo TO stay IN II and leave
the pay envelope 20 the splnater. These
writer's invariably say they have boon
forced out OF their Jobs by married
women. and that II II hhame ana M
outrage for women with husbands to
compete in tho labor market with women
who are husbandleAs. Also they charge
THAT employers prefer married women 10
single women.
stuff and nonsense So far aa I can
nee, there IL no more reaaon why the
married woman who wants 10 work. and
who can turn out work that other PEG.
pie are willing 10 pay for shouldn't
work than tbcro Ia why n married man
shouldn't When you hire bookkeoper
or n carpenter, or a plumber. you don't
consider whether he ia married or single,
hut the kind Of work he does.
We don't patroniEe Mr., Smiths butcher
shop because he has wife and six
children, while the rival butcher, Mr.
iones. Ia unmarried with nobody but
himself 10 support,
We 20 TO tho butcher shop where We
get the best meat for our money, with
out reference 10 tho matrimonial status
~ the men who run them. II would be
lust ms logical for nil married men 10
cry out that bachelors shouldn't be NJ
lowed 10 go into business an II II for
women 10 oppose married women work
ing outside OF their homes They've got n
perfect right 10 do II II they want 10.
and Ms childish and ridiculous for other
women 10 object to Il,
Aside from her inherent right 90 labor
how and whore she ploases. tho married
woman who continues at her old Job
has either the necessity 10 earn money or
else She has some peculiar fitness and
talent for her chosen work that would
maze her loss 10 the world did she
retire 10 strict domoatleity. n no sales
woman, no woman buyer, no milllner,
no drossmnkcr, no BtonoRrnphcr, should
continue Mt her work after she gets mar
Red then no womHn writer, no actress
no musician, no painter should continue
NJ hers. That would be rather a squeleher
Of genius, wouldn't lt7 Because women
ordinarily marry while they ARE young
md before they come to the run ma.
tunty Of their power,
Yet the girl stonogfapher or tho girl
hchnd the counter doesn't compete any
more with the married stenoRrapher or
he married woman buyer than the girl
writer does with Mrs Humphrey Ward
or tho girl actress does with Mrs soth-
ern on Mrs, Fiske
Tho theory that very married woman
has somebody 10 support hor and pro-
vide for her md stand between her aud |
the cruel world is beautiful one but,
ilnhnpplly. II does not always pan out |
that way IN reality Many woman
finds that everything that marriage has
brought hor IL husband to support and /
children TO feed and clothc and her /
need OF earning money In more desperate /
than that OF the single woman who has
nobody but herself 10 take care OF. prac- |
tlcaly every married woman who works
outside OF her home does 40 because she
has 10, and not because she wants TO- I
and 40 she is entitled 10 her Job on that |
consideration also,
hut business Ia not conducted along
oleemosynary lines. II II done for profit
Nor do employers choose their employees
BY means Of phllanthropc tests and on
account of their necessity They pick
out those who can do the work best and
who give the most satisfactory service
Therefore. when an employer turns or
n single woman and hires a married
woman IN her place or advances q mar
ried woman over single woman, II IL
simply because the married woman han
more ability or more industry. or is at
tending more closely TO business. The
matter Of wedding rings cuts no figure
in the affair, As matter Of fact. every
man who hires women is a little inclined
70 give the preference to the single one,
IN the ground that n woman's husband
doesn't support her he ought 10,
And n married women are advanced
more quickly than single women In the
places in which they work. az many OF
my correspondents assert. Il IL simply
because the married woman has settled
down 70 business as life occupation and
II bending all 81 her energies 10 make
good In It. while the single woman is stu
with one eye on her ioh and the
ether one rowing around in search az
g possible husband
The cry If the unmarried woman that
he married woman should be dehafFed
nom the gaiutul occupations IA unjust.
md she had better waste M more
strength and voice IN utterinE A. For I
warn her that tho married woman Is moi
1niy N business FOR keeps but that she
'~soins to h~ ~ Il IN greater and Eraater
lumhsFa every year
Whether We Inc d 90 not Ne had uat
~ well face the truth, ana that Is that
ader present ee0nemia conditions very
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