New Britain herald., 1930-10-15

DIR. ANNIE R. DYER
 tain things women did and certain things men did. Today women are employment.
 Historians tell us and many of us have seen it in the relations of our own mothers that woman has been dominated by man. Langland- Davies in his Shorter History of Women shows how a condition of slavery for women has existed up through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. Women have had three freedoms to gain, civic, eco- homie and emotional. The first two. he believes, women have pretty much accomplished, but MT. Lang land-Dayes is quite pessimistic as to what will happen to the social fabric when women gain emotional freedom Meyrick Booth in a re- cent book Woman and Society studies the relation of women eco- nomically, sexually and socially. He concludes that our salvation exists in returning to the ancient truth that a. division of labor between the sexes is intended in the scheme of evolution.
 Much is being and has been writ ten on this problem of woman's po- sition in society. Go into any li- brary and look up in the card cata- log the word woman and you will find ten to twenty times as many books as under the term Man and there are many books which use the word, man, in the title in the broad- CT sense to include all human be- ings. (In the New Britain library the actual difference I found in modern books was: woman 34 books, man 4 books). Virginia Woolf in her book, "A Room of Ones Own tells about going to the British Mu- scum thinking to find a few books on woman, and how she is dumb- founded to find so many She asks the question of her woman readers, Are you aware that you are per haps the most discussed animal in the universe"
 'The main problem that Virginia Woolf raises in this book is why have not women contributed more to the worlds work, especially in fic- tions?
 "She concludes that a woman to make contribution as a writer needs money and room of her own. She says 500 pounds a year stands for the power to contem- plate and "the lock on the door of the room means the power to think for oneself
 "A peculiar thing that Virginia Woolf found. and you will find it if you go to a library, was that most of men. There are a few outstanding ones by women-Lorinne Pruette's s Women and Leisure and Parsons 'Women's Dilemma and among the English writers, Clemence Danes The Woman's Side in which she treats of the widely discussed phases of the woman problem such as Sex and the Business Woman and The Female Genius
 Why Do Women Want a Career?
 But I have not answered the question: Why do women want a career?' Perhaps Leta Hollingworth, the Columbia university psychologist gives us the best answer in her statement of the woman problem. Century Magazine). This is brief ed part of what she says: 'Women's problem is how to reproduce the species and at the same time win satisfaction of the human appetites for food, security, self assertion, mastery, adventure, play and so forth. Man satisfies these cravings by competitive attack-both physi- cal and mental upon the environ ment. As compared with man, woman has been in a cage, tied down, caught, confined.' In a career there is all these: Self assertion mastery, adventure and they are the natural cravings of women as we'll as men. But perhaps you say women can have all these in the home. And perhaps she can, then she has a homemaking career, but more often she does not have these satisfac- tions in the home. Whats in hap piness,' has been a recent study by Dr. Goodwin Watson at Teachers college, Columbia university. What were some of the findings?
 T-Enjoyment of success in work was found to be a major factor in happiness? How does woman know she is successful in the home :? What standards has she to measure her home by? Who praises the homework?
 "2-It was found that popularity mattered. Popularity is gained through group life. One goes out of the home for that.
 "3-Success in dealing with peo- pie is fundamental in happiness. Why do our employed girls find so much difficulty in giving up work and settling in their homes? One of the reasons is because home making is a one-man job and office or factory is group job. It is fur