Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Jobs Study
For Women
Is Planned
Committee of
University Women
Takes Up Work

A study OF employment oppor-
tunities in the District of Columbia
for mature women, who are jobless
or perhaps in need of a change in
employment, is being planned by
the Committee on Economic and
Legal Status of Women of the Wash
ington Branch, American Associa-
ton of University Women.
The committee, which is headed
by Miss Mary " Robinson Of the
Women's Bureau of the Labor De-
partment, hopes eventually to be-
come clearing housing Of informa-
ton on aid offered by the various
organizations here qualified to help
the mature woman seeking employ
ment.
Miss Robinson said that several
members of her committee are ex-
perienced in vocational guidance
and might be able to grant more
extensive interviews with women
who have employment problems
than are afforded at the agencies
which already exist.
Employment Agencies
Are Being Contacted.
A subcommittee, headed by Miss
Jettie Turner, already has been ap-
pointed to contact employment
agencies in the city and other organ
izations concerned with the prob
lens of mature persons. The Dis
trict Employment Center. the divi-
sion of women's and professional
projects Of the Works Projects Ad-
ministration of the District, and the
American Over 40 Club, organized
here last fall, are some of the organ
tZations with which the committee
expects to work.
Miss Robinson suggested that her
committee might also assist in
bringing about different attitude
toward certain types of work for
which mature women are particu-
larry qualified. A stigma, which
should be removed, has been at
tached to certain types of employ
ment in households, she declared.
There are, however, openings of a
high type in many households, she
said, for the care of children, as
companions to elderly persons or
invalids or as housekeepers in
motherless families where the serv-
ice is much more important to the
health and happiness of people than
it Is in many other fields.
This project is one of several in
which the committee in interested.
A special survey of problems of
household employment is being
made by subcommittee, headed by
Miss Katherine Towne of the home
economics department of George
Washington University.
The committee also is continuing
the study, inaugurated last year
under Miss Bertha Nienburg. re-
garding the need for university
training school for nurses. The
project this year is under DR.. Mary
E. Maver.
Other Members
OF Committee.
In addition to Miss Robinson, the
chairman, the Committee on Eco
nomic and Legal Status Of Women
this year includes DR.. Maver, vice
chairman; Miss Mary Coins, secre-
tary; Miss Marguerite Atchison,
Miss Marie Beger, Miss Gertrude
Bowling, DR.. Henrietta K. Burton,
Mrs. Ernest Correll, Miss Cordelia
Cowan, Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr.;
Mrs. James L. Fieser, Miss Rochelle
Gachet, Miss Marjorie Gooch, Mrs.
Thomas Grower, Miss Gwladys
Jones, Miss Weinberg, Miss jose
phine Prescott, Miss Iva Prisk, Miss
Grace Sandhouse, Miss Mildred
Sieg, Mrs. Myron Smith, Miss Adele
Stamp, Miss Towne and Miss
Turner. Mrs. Florence Kerr, assist
ant administrator of the w. P. A.,
is an advisory member and several
other women have expressed an
interest in the work Of the COM
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