The Washington times., 1917-01-09
Feminists Seek to Widen Field
Of Their Business op-
portunity.
AIDS GIRL TO PLAN CAREER
New Bulletin Expected to Be-
come Clearing House for
Women Workers.

The League for Business Opportu-
mites for Women has made the leap
into Journalism. They have issued
the first number of a small monthly
publication called the Bulletin.
The officers of the League for Bust
ness Opportunities for Women have
long felt that after you have brought
professional and business women to-
gether some means of communication
other than the purely vocal must be
provided.
1t may be well to state here the
ideals of the organization and the
particular situation that brought IL
into being. According to Miss Mary
Snow, who Is vice president OF the
league, "all this began to happen in
the fall of 1914. when one of the large
automobile companies of the city IN
stalled three women as operators and
saleswomen to convince their patron
that after all a woman's mind could
master the mechanics of an engine
quite as well as the average mans
Under the leadership of Crystal
Eastman the scheme was launched.
Women began to sell cars and more
and more women began to buy them.
so that a woman driver is today as
much OF a commonplace as woman
behind a baby carriage.
To Broaden woman's Field.
.Out of that quick entrance into a
field heretofore monopolized by men
came the idea of a league of women
whose purpose. should be to open to
women occupation after occupation
usually considered by the male to be
his private little kingdom. Its policy
has been to explore the field OF OPP
portHnity for women. to formulate
methods of entrance. to gather infor-
nation as to desirability. standardized
ton OF pecuniary reward and to dis
cover and to open new fields.
AT present the league numbers 80
members from all fields OF work. One
cannot say woman's work, for IL there
Is any field not open to women. cx-
cept perhaps stringing wires on te!e-
graph poles, should like to know
what IL rs.
The league has taken the response
biIity of guiding these young begin
ners in the FIRST years of their ca
reers, and also has gathered informa-
ten on all the professions and occu-
pations that are open to women, as
well as those that are closed to them.
and they have bombarded the latte
on behalf of the sex.
members Really Have Ideas.
The peculiar and extraordinary
feature Of the league. according to
the editor OF the Bulletin, Mrs.
Raleigh Hansl. is. that most of the
members have ideas. "And naturally
they are only lfDo eager to avail
themselves of q chance to express
them. Most of the people who are work
ing in the various professions have
ideas as to the woman workers at
titude toward that profession, toward
life and everything else, and they are
all filled with the faith that there is
no prejudice that cannot be beaten
down.
1t is comparatively easy. after all.
10 break DIN the barriers, but there
Is far more to be done in the way OF
Standardization and cooperation.
Men have their trade unions and
their professional clubs, but each
woman worker is an individual prob
lem unto herself
Hopes 10 Aid individuals
I'm the Bulletin. we hope to lay be-
fore the individual woman who is
puzzled the problems and the solu-
tons that likewise puzzle others. The
Bulletin is TO be the organ of the
league, in itself a clearing house of
information, and 1t is 10 be more. II
IS to take its message from door to
door, Out IL is also to spread IT far
abroad into those remote corners
where it is not possible for business
women to NEE and thresh out their
14iGlttFsFf0gfs problems.
we tnirF LHe most q Eni1cant and
helpful G 20 hieHt rGsi we hope to
<lrry on Is The snsweRing of ques-
-gurs on ell =ortz o. problems and sit
ua4faa- that may ~gErro1t any work
sug woman These let IS will not be
answered 81 The Ndit1 iaI stan, but
will be handled by a group of people
in the same work"
The Bulletin is in the hands of q
STAFF whose experience in all types OF
work makes the breadth OF its vision
. certainty. The editor, Eva Won
Baur HansI, was formerly editor of
the woman's page OF the New York
Evening Sun.