New Britain herald., 1930-10-15
X-ray Turned On Women's Desire
 For Career By Dr. Annie R. Dyer r
 At Anniversary of B. &P. ". Club
Psychologist Tells of Ob- stacles, Imaginary and Otherwise, in Path of Members of Her Sex Who Want to Enter Bus mess Life.

6So W CoI 41e1iAA oLl CClp dulllOI, lGC- turer, psychologist and economist, who spoke at the ninth annual ban Quet of the Business and Profession al Women's club at the Burritt hotel last night
 Miss Mabel Wallen, as president of the club opened the program and in- troduced Miss Maurgerite Tracy as toastmaster.
 In welcoming the guests Miss Tracy made the statement that the club has grown in it's nine years of life to the point now where prac- tically every woman in the city holding responsible position is a member of the club.
 Telegrams were read from mem- bers who are out of the city and for mer members who have moved to other cities.
 Greetings from Missouri
 Among the guests was Miss Ger trude C. Ryan, vice president of the Missouri State Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Women s clubs, who brought greetings from Missouri. Mrs. Mabel c. Foster, god- mother of the local club and past president of the Connecticut Federa- tion, of B. $ P. W. clubs, was in attendance and brought greetings from her home club of Hartfofd
 Miss Agnes Warren of this city, matron of the club when it main- tained club house on High street, was guest also.
 A birthday cake in four layers, surmounted by nine candles, graced the center of decorations, surround ed by autumn flowers and foliage.
 Misses Katherine Colton and Rachael Spencer had charge of a program of entertainment, which was provided by Misses Harriet Foley, Doris Gibson, Carolyn Doe, Mildred Lindstrom, Mrs LeRoy Ramsdall and Mrs. G. R. Bestor of Hartford.
 Dr. Dyer the principal speaker of the evening is a graduate of Sim mons college at Boston and of Co., lumba university where she re-
 
 Ph.D. degree.
 For some time she was a research associate in education at Teachers college at Columbia university. She has done lecture and conference work in the field of social adjust ment, women's interest and girls work as well as parent education and child psychology.
 She is the author of Guide to Literature of Home and Family Life" of home economics curriculum studies and other publications on family life and problems. At present she is engaged writing book on "The Changing Home"
 She recently gave a series of social psychology and human relations lectures under the auspices of the local Y. w. c. A.
 Dr. Dyer's Talk
 Her address last evening was in part as follows:
 Every Business and Professional Womcn's club member is surely ln- terested in career. A larger pro- portion of women today are prob- ably career minded than ever before in the history of woman's progress. Did our mothers have careers? Probably most of us would answer 'No.' We only use to hear about the boy and his career, but now, So much has it become a part of woman's dction that a, friend Of mine was surprised the other day, when she complimented the butcher on a fine piece of meat he had sold her, to hear him say, Never in all my career of twenty-five years have I sold poor piece of meat to any, one.' She said afterwards to me I'd forgotten that men ever had careers
 But let us assume early in our discussion a common meaning for this term career. The Century dic- tionary says, A career is a path, a way, a course, especially a swift one, a course of life or employment of fering possibilities of advancement or fame Why is it practically all girls today want a career-this course of life that offers possibilities of advancement? Recently, 61 per ' cent of a group of young women voted for careers and 39 per cent for the home in response to the question, If you could choose any thing in the world what would you most like to be- Some girls men tioned two desires, business woman now, and wife later. This call to a career is not only felt by the aver age and below-average group where the economic factor increases the need to be wage earning but by the society girl and those whom we gen. ,erally think of as becoming the women of leisure There was a time when the only vacations open to women were marriage, spinster- hood and the cloister or convent Women were afraid to remain un- married. Now they marry and con- tinue working. Mary Cassat, the artist, was told that she would have to choose between marriage and a career, she said, I will have both and she has given us some of the most beautiful of the modern moth CT and child pictures.
 Women Freer to Choose
 "Yes, women today are freer to choose their occupations than were their mothers and their grandmoth- CTS. Only yesterday as we count days sociologically the standard practice was division of labor be- tween the sexes. There were cer-