The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-18
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BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NFA Service Writer

NEW YORK, July 18.-Now that
woman's right TO q career is estab-
nshed thoroughly ana everybody
thinks It is smart TO work. what. We
might ask. makes girls choose this
kind Of work or that?
Does the salary they are likely to
receive in a particular line Of work
make girls decide upon it?
Is It the degree of fascination
certain types Of activity offer them
which others lack? Is It, then, that
they seek expression through their
work?
Or could it be the number OF
eligible men they are likely to meet
in one kind Of work and not in an
other? Is it that they expect TO
marry. though csreering?
IT'S Social Standing
II really Is none of these, pri-
marty. answers q woman who mas
been i'm vocational work for the
mast ten years. woman who has
advised and consulted with hundreds
of girls who are in the stages OF
choosing their life work-Miss Helen
Livingstone, 4 prominent New YORK
educator.
The most important factor TO
most girls IN choosing work is the
social position that the job would
give" Miss Livingstone told me-
ct is the standing in given COM
munity that mis- work or that has
that determines tEeir choice.
Work which stamps them with So
cisl inferioritv. like domestic service,
they shun like the plague. though
there may be mole pay, more lei
sure. an easier life in general
other Factors, Too
SALARY. the amount of interest
a lob holds. the number Of men they
are likely TO meet. all are factors,
undoubtedly. But the social stard-
ing that her work gives her Is the
deciding factor. because that de-
termines her -hcie scale Of values.
In a Job where she can hold her
head high. DIS a community-respect-
ed careerist. she meets an entirely
different type Of men than she
would in other work. she mixes with
people who have entirely different
interests and ideas, and her whole
life is different Girls instinctively
know this
There is no absolute scale OF So
cial standing in work. however, &C
cording TO Miss Livingstone. Take
New York for an example.
Selling Goes Social"
Ten years ago girls who clerk
&C in stores got pity. Today, col
leee girls and social registerites
have been like an invading army
marching into department store
work and the result is that it Is
quite the social thing to be selling.
Specializing in different types OF
department store work has a ire
mendous vogue. Who can say but
what the future may not see girls
going into specialized domestic work
i'm the same way. Some one may
make it the thing to do. Everybody
will do it.
Miss Livingstone organized the
Cass Technical schools vocational
work in Detroit Ten years ago. Now
she is principal of the Hebrew
Girls Technical high school, New
York
Vacations Are Studied
Her work consists not only Of
studying the possible vacations girls
could follow, but of studying the
community and determined what
lines are likely 20 offer the best OPP
portunities for placement upon
graduation.
Her school Includes in its curri-
culum millinery. dTeSSmaking, cos
tune designing. the commercial arts,
stenography end all types of clerical
work. art metal york and art weav-
ing. and This coming year, in re-
Spouse to a widespread demand,
they will add cosmetology, in all of
its branches of beauty.