Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
WORKING MOTHERS
EARN HIGHER PAY
Institute Inquiry Shows Most
Women Seek Jobs Because
of Economic Pressure.
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.


Reasons given for working by ovel
300 college women in answer to ques
tionnaire sent out by Mrs. Chase Coins
Woodhouse, director of the Institute
Of Women's Professional Relations
show that economic pressure predom1'
mates as the cause for the LOB outside
the home" The intensive study Of
Mrs Woodhouse also discloSeS the fact
that on the, whole married women with
children earn more than do the married
women without children.
For two years Mrs Woodhouse has
been compiling data and carrying or
research work to be used in the program
of the Institute of Women's Profess
sional Relations. The institute is a re-
search organization sponsored but not
financed by the American Association
Of University Women with headquarters
at the North Carolina College for
Women.
Aids Vocational Guidance.
It was organized two years ago as
the result of the realization by group
Of progressive men and women for the
need Of an institution to conduct scien-
tific and systematic research into bust
ness opportunities and professional
fields open to college women. One OF
the purposes of the institute as a result
Of its research work is to serve as a
sort of vocational guidance bureau for
women college students. The institute
offers reliable information on present
opportunities and on new opportunities
for advancement in specific occupations.
Through effective cooperation with
business and professional groups and
with educational institutions it is able
to render valuable assistance to the
young college girl in selection OF a
career.
The plans for the founding of the
Institute of Women'S Professional Re
lationS were formed during a series OF
informal meetings held at the Wash
ington home of Mrs. Catherine Filene
Dodd, well known in the Capitals So
ciety circles Mrs. Dodd, who is a
graduate of Wheaton College, is the
originator during her undergraduate
days of the organized student move
rnent for vocational guidance for COL
,lege women After her graduation,
realizing the difficulties of so many
young women in choosing for them
selves a profession or occupation best
suited to individual tastes and talents,
Mrs. Dodd edited book, Careers for
Women which was compiled for
answers to a QUESTIONABLE sent by Mrs.
Dodd to women in 800 different occu-
pations.
Few Have Definite Plans.
ct realized when was in college"
explained Mrs. Dodd, chow few young
women entering college take up their
studies with a definite career in view.
At college age young women no less
than young men are ignorant of the
import of their own likes and diSlikeS;
they are ignorant to great extent OF
the world in which they will have to
use them, and preconceived ideas of
what they want to be may or may not
be in harmony with their true selves"
AS the result of the meetings held at
Mrs. Dodd's home during the Winter Of
1927-1928 the Institute of Women's
Professional Relations was founded.
Funds were raised by private subscrip-
ton to cover flve-year program, and
the American Association of University
Women was invited to sponsor the
enterprise.
The North Carolina College for
Women at Greensboro, N. c., learning
Of the plan, offered Office space, equip
ment and the college press for the use
of the new institute. The vocational
director of the college, which comprises
approximately 1900 women students,
serves also as director of the institute.
Complete photography.
The institute began work January.
1929, with Mrs. Woodhouse as director
and Mrs. Dodd as chairman of the
board Of directors. Since that time it
has completed a photography, "Occu-
pations Off College Women" containing
list of books and magazines dealing
with 10 fields Of work, chapters on per-
sonnet work in colleges, vocational
tests, some problems Of professional
women and lists of professional peri
odicals, professional organizations and
publishers. A supplement bringing the
material to date will appear in Feb
Tuary of each year.
Studies and research into past, pres
ent and future occupations of college
and university women have been extern
sively carried out in the past two years
by Mrs. Woodhouse and a staff of insti-
tute workers.
Interesting data have been gathered
relative to married college women in
business and the professions, women
and the Pm. D., the changing status
Of women, some facts about women in
banking, womenS work and education,
business women in retail trade, college
women in banking and investment
houses, and innumerable other occu-
pations pursued by college women.
Valuable Service Possible.
BY assisting the college woman in
the first year of college to select def
nitely the career for which she is best
suited, Mrs. Dodd points out that the
Institute of Women's Professional Re-
lations will render invaluable service
not only TO individual women, but to
business and the professions. Much of
the waste period which accompanies
the transition Of the college woman
from academic life 10 the life of action
and production will be eliminated
The Board Of Directors Of the Insti-
tute Of Womens Professional Relations
consists OF Mrs. Dodd, Mrs. Anna Arch
bold OF Washington, Walter Dubois
Brookings, United States Chamber of
Commerce; DR.. Julius I. Foust. presi-
cent of North Carolina College of
Women; Lincoln Filene, Boston. Mass. !.
DR.. Lillian NJ. Gilbreth, Montclair
y. j.; Prof. Harry D. Kitson, Columbia
University; DR.. Charles r. Mann
American Council on Education: Prof