Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-14
.D|sl|kEs OLD ATTITUDE
TOWARD BUSINESS GIRL
Successful Woman of Affairs Should
Not Excite Wonder of
World.
BELITTLEs FEMININE ABILITY
Miss Gilbert Declares They Should
Have no Eulogy, Because Differ.
ence in Sex Docs Not Count
Either Way.

Tho wonder is not that she docs 1t
SO well. but that she does II at all.
That was the cTuX OF the old "a $ honed
mans opinion of women who were do
ing well in business.
Merely going into business for her
self is enough 10 attract great and
natterinG attention TO woman" he
: debated. IF Air. Jones goes into the
coffee business his wife hopes he will
and helps considerably in living up TO
their income. Nobody else pays much
attention to Jones or care whoop
whether he succeeds or not.
go into the coffee cor any other, husi-
ncss-n1ind YOU. 4 business Of her own
she makes stir in the feminine
world immediately Your fcminn"
periodicals reproduce pictures If her
q; her desk. she is Interviewed and her
opinions asked on every su5je-c; from
end every one who reads remarks,
Isn't she clever. and what a wonder
she must be- and 80 or.
Don't Wait for Success.
Sometimes VIC don't wait and sec
whether she's succeeding in business
or not. And II she succeeds. woe be-
We never hear tho end Of he.. Either
she writes and lectures or is written
and Iec;ured about and ouloEized as
anything short Of the eighth wonder
Now Why? Women in business
'clainl an equality with man. Nobody
gers CIClte0 ABOUT man going lrto
business for himself Nooody inter
views the man VINO manages a pros
porous Office or is fair success in
some business Jon. Why all this TODD
admission that the majority OF women
III business are failures. and that the
individual who succeeds is so rare that
everybody must stop to come and take
"certainly not" objected There
arc loads Of women who're doing i'm
portant work in business. and perhaps
il We pu, It on q percentage basis The
per cent Of women who are holding
down big jobs isn't much lower than
the percentage Of men who are doing
executive work"
Eu, on reflection IL seems tina; We
Just naturally and uNconsciously DO
marvel "a; woman who does any
thing OF Importance in business. not
e;ois;,St me job i re ,,, sa
The woman physician. the woman
lawyer. the woman architect excite
what can woman be more innstely
fitted than tho medical profession,
where q combination Of great deftrcss
and centleness, persistence and pa
;ience--all essentially feminine quail
ties--arc needed?
who has done the work of the house
how a house should be constructed for
me peSI ncallh ana CONF orr. OF IT
cccuPa nts? Why, then. the wonder
that woman do fine work in arch!
tecturea
This general attitude. while fatter-
ing TO the individual, has its disad
vautaEcs. The Longer we cling to the
IDEA that Il So unusual for woman to
hold a big job or make a great sue
cess OF her work the longer will KS
tha, tho average woman is unfit 10
encourage the idea among employers
hold the bic Job
He VIII give the average man the
opportunities Withheld from tho aver.
age woman Tic VIII pay the woman
holding the big job less than nc would
pay man in her Olact For az"
women ourselves not boastirr that tho
average woman has 10 ability and
shat the woman who makes good is
wonder or wonders among u.s.