Evening star., 1933-06-18
Business WOman's Future
Risks Chances Involved in Embarkng Upon Career Under
Present Conditions Revealed.

practical problems give point and mean
ing and application to education.
The experts offer other concrete sug-
gestlons for the new education Of the
business woman. First they say. her
education should provide her with
purpose early in life; she should know
what occupation she is working to-
ward. Second, she should be helped
into state Of willingness to work"
This is the result of proper training
and good health, creating in the girl
happy mental attitude. Third. all
future business women should be helped
to measure their capacity. A girl may
have purpose and willingness; yet II
mental, physical or emotional capacity
Is lacking, she can do little.
Complete Living"
The social worker Of experience, the
psychiatrist who has brought her
science to enlighten the problems Of
the ill-sdjusted white collar woman,
agree that many signs are pointing
to changing moreS, fastened perhaps
by our economical stress. That pride
Of the male which asserted yesterday,
i guess I can support my wife" has
been hushed by world throes far ex-
ceeding any urge of masculine ego.
And 50 the experts ask if 1t isn't pos
sible that the new recall to business of
many professional women whose hus-
bands have come upon unemployment,
will stir in the professional wife a de-
mand that her services continue to be
utilized, even though she be married
woman?
But the question remains: How is
the young candidate to find herself a
position this June or July or August?
There are two ways, the authorities
explain. She may begin in the most
humble capacity, or she may take spe-
cial courses and burst in at the top"
This latter method, however. Is usually
more successful when tried by the ma
ture woman Of experience. One such
person had long experience as a teacher
Of literature in children's school.
To this she added study of proof
reading, the technical parts of make
up, printing, etc. Then she obtained a
position as editor of juvenile books in
publishing house where size became
one of the already mentioned ''indis-
pensable specialists"
In business and industry, however.
the evidence seems to point to the
feasibility OF starting humble and
working up" No more for any Of the
personnel positions in industry or mer-
chandising will the old time explana-
tion of the college candidate, II majored
in psychology and like to work with
people" be considered sufficient. To-
day as a direct result of the new de-
mands Of hard times, she will be asked.
What do you know about the cost of
producing this cotton cloth, or this
Paris frock? What about conditions in
the work rooms? What about the busi-
ness end OF things, as 1t affects your
human relations job?"
How to get in at all, of course, is the
question June graduates have annually
asked-and this year they are asking it
with new gravity. The women of ex-
perience agree that there are two ways
of arriving. One Is Ito know somebody
there" The other is to get in. as an
Office girl If necessary, and then to
watch your chancel
When the lob engineers" start func-
tioning, they must devote much Of their
time, the experts feel, to Occupational
research. The young graduate, scien
tiically advised. will then be less at
sea in finding her work; moreover, a
proper survey of applicants and occu-
pations should obviate the shameful
spectacle of four teachers prepared to
fill each available vacancy. But even
before these experts get to work, many
eminent spokesWomen agree that pros
poets are not so diScouraging for the
white collar girl as they have been. 1t
is still an adventuring world for wom-
en-, with many good possibilities not
so far of. Yet 1t is a world, no doubt
which would fill that old mother of
1900 with wonder, could she come back
to it, this world in which her daughter
works, in which her graduating grand
daughter will soon be asking for a
chance to work-a world quite different,
surely, from what the mother imagined,
when, back in 1890, and 1900, and later,
she dreamed for her daughter, her am
bilious, pioneering dream.