New Britain herald., 1930-10-15

to work with people.
 "4-Another finding of Dr. Wat sons was that men believe them- selves to be happier than women be- lieve themselves to be. This is a sad corollary on life and makes one think of the time when almost every spirited woman wished she was a man. Women have the right to as much happiness as men and they | will find the way to it.
 Conflicts
 And with careers for women there came conflicts. What are con- ficts? To conflict is to come up against something, to come into col lision, to clash or to be in opposi- ton to, to be at variance With or to be contradictory. Conflicts may be of varying degrees of intensity ranging from slight irritations to disorganized living. Are conflicts necessary? Yes, in our civilization as it is now organized. All of growth is conflict between the old and the new, the good and the bad. Conflicts among individuals are redl- ly clashes of desire where the inter- ests are different or the personality is out of harmony with the environ ment.
 What are the types and kinds cf conflicts women meet in their ca reer life? They are many and va ried. I can only mention a few. The conflict of women with the job pr work conditions. Work conditions had been made for men. Women, upon entering business had to ad- just to them. All sorts of social re- forms were started from stools in stores to rest rooms and rest periods for women. They say women are more troubled by confusion, disor- der, noise. Clemence Dane raises the question how long will women be able to stand the strain on the nerves of the modern business life. She thinks that women are liable to either work themselves to death or relapse into Victorianism which l suppose she thinks of as the fearful period when women desired mems pity. The third course she says lies between power and disability. It is simplifcation which women must bring about.
 There are the clashes in career life with business associates. In our homes we have to adjust to the diff fpranf m harc % TIac adjustments are often difficult enough when Hove reigns supreme, ' but in business there is no love which assists in controlling the situ- ation, unless we. call loyalty to the firm" the keynote and too often this is used as narrowing control on the individual. In the office or work place there may be the tyrant boss the gossipy work-mate, or the jeaJ- ous job-seeker. We must remem- Der that probably in every business group there are those who are themselves maladjusted-the child adult, who must have the center of the stage, the mentally sick and ir- ritable individuals.
 "Women even more than men possibly meet the conflict of the jot and the home. In the book Why Men Fail, edited by Morris Fish bein and William A. White, one o1 three major reasons why women | fail as given was, Overtime home tasks The boy is not expected tc l help at home when he gets through his days work, but the girl must do many things.
 Women have constant clashes with mans idea of the role of wom- en. Half the men in business are not educated to the point of ac- cepting women as equals and con traryWlse there are many women who complain of the decline of the chivalrous spirit in men and are unwilling to be judged by a con- 1 mon standard. This raises the ques- tion are women so different from men that they should be judged by a different standard?
 Men and Preconceived Ideas
 All mef have preconceived idea of womanhood It may be the idea they have of their mother or that which their social group have formed for them. In the past cen- turies men have imposed their ideal of womanhood on society. Women have tried to live up to it and still are. We all know what it is to try ! n hJIc ina nc. pecially men want women that they can handle with the least difficulty and afford them the maximum amount of comfort and satisfaction. Complexes
 With career-mindednes women havo developed complexes. The term complex is used with more than one 1 psychological meaning. It is used broadly to mean things of high emo- tional value, that the individual cares much about The college boy says he's got a complex on some thing, meaning he is touchy on the subject. The sentiment or belief is emotionalized. Again it is used to | mean emotional handicaps, mental
 
 conflicts within the self. It is with this latter meaning that I am using | the term. There are some personal ity difficulties from within that make us not a success in business | or make our work harder for us.
 Common complexes often dis cussed are the superiority and in- fo, l., complex often leads to depression and the blues. Professor Rex B. Hersey has made a study through the University of Pennsylvania of why the work of a, man varies in quality. He has studied the factors entering into the lives of the group that made the mood change day by day. In high periods work came easily, and in low periods as we