Evening star., 1922-07-30

en- has taken upon itself the solving
OF the many and varied problems
which yet face women and girls be-
fore they can have true equality with
men in lines Of business.
AS it 10. the girl does not in most
professions have an equal chance
financially or from point of view
Of professional training with her
brother.
The woman's party is an organiza-
ton which has as it's primary object
the removal of all forms of the sub
jugation Of women. From 1913 to
1920 the society bent all its concen-
trated efforts on helping in the
achieving Of the franchise. Since that
date the members have reorganized
and are now endeavoring to interest
all women in the United States in
ridding those women who have to
earn their living of their traditional
handicaps and getting all women to
stand together to give the girls of
today an equal chance with the boys
in earning their bread and butter.
This organization is not trying to
encourage sex antagonism or the de-
velopment Of privileges for women
such as men do not have, but merely
equality in all things.
Just as. a number Of years ago. a
merchant in a small town in Massa-
chusetts was boycotted by men and
women alike for employing a girl as
a sales clerk in his retail store, so
today men in large businesses or
government offices who grant high
positions to women who have won
them by competitive examination are
ridiculed into placing them in lower
positions and filing the higher PlaeSs
with men or making the women SIM
ply f1guraheads ana assistants to men
who really hold the positions of i'm
portance.
hi f- A,lxr of 1a ,c1
professions. but Is also true of many
of the educational institutions train
ing students for those professions.
Many of the most prominent medical
schools and hospital training schools
still have their doors closed to girl
medical students and will not let
them enter to secure the practical
experience as internes which is abso-
lutely necessary for success in that
profession as practicing physician
or specialist. Not until quite recent
ly. when an endowment was made by
a prominent woman to Johns Hopkins
Medical School. with the special stip-
ulation that the endowment would
only be available as long as women
were allowed the inferno and similar
privileges of the institution the same
as men. did that school-one of the
try-open Its doors and welcome
woman medical students. Yet all Of
the colleges and universities. as well
as Institutions such as hospital train
ing schools under state or federal au-
thority. owe part of their financial
backing to -endowments by wealthy
women or taxes collected from the
property OF women.
The same thing is true of the law
as a profession for women. Once
woman has secured her training in
law and her degree from college,
she still has an overw whelming preju-
dice to conquer in order to secure any
kind Of a paying position in munich
pal or state government work, and
to date no federal judgeship has been
given a woman. Belva Lockwood.
one Of Americas most brilliant Por-
tias, devoted her entire energies to-
ward opening the doors of the Su-
preme Court to woman lawyers and
sacrificed her own career in obtaining
this splendid advantage for women
who will follow her.
Similarly the unwrttten conven-
tions are choking off as far as possi-
Bile women's advance in other pro-
fessions. Figures recently issued by
the United States bureau of educa-
ton show that during the last few
years the number of women gradual
ing from colleges and universities has
greatly increased, but the number OF
good, -high-paid positions for women
80 educated has greatly decreased.
The Woman's Party Is systematicai-
ly taking up this matter. Careful
and detailed research is made in each