Evening star., 1943-04-04
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

college girl in the United States
this summer" declares Mrs. Jouett
Shouse, chairman of the board OF
the Institute of Women's Profes-
sional Relations" which. will hold It's
| 18th annual conference here next
Friday and Saturday.
Industry, business, the profes-
slons and their communities will
need the services of our college girls
this summer to help fill the supply
OF workers in relation to the de-
mand of the total war program, -
she added, emphasizing at the same
time her belief that every college
girl who can possibly do so should
return to college this fall.
She believes, however, that the
liberal arts courses in the womens
colleges must be accelerated to meet
changing conditions if they are to
continue to hold their students.
Mrs. Shouse speaks with authority
as the author of Careers for Wom-
en- the first standard book of its
kind published in this country. Con-
stantly revised and brought up to
date, it has gone through many
editions and is widely used as a
textbook in personal guidance by
high schools, colleges and universi-
ties.
Leaders Needed.
Postwar leadership, Mrs. Shouse
is confident, will bring increasingly
greater responsibilities to college
women as we'll as college men, with
the need for them greater than at
any other time in the history of our
Nation. Especially in all types of
community and national service
dealing with public health and well
fare, she believes, the trained COL
lege women will find highly i'm
portant fields of endeavor.
Even now" she points out, there
is scarcity of women physicians,
dentists and dental hygienists, with
the demand for women research
chemists growing by leaps and
bounds. AS for industry, it has gone
into a complete reverse with regard
to hiring women workers of profess
slonal standing and is now urging
them to come into its ranks in
practically every capacity"
The answer to the problem of
after the war employment for
women who still wish to continue
in gainful occupations, Mrs. Shouse
contends, lies in an economy of
maximum production for both men
and women. Otherwise. there will
not be full employment for either of
the sexes.
Institutes Objectives.
The Institute of Women's Profess
sional Relations, of which Mrs.
Shouse has been strongly mott
waiting force ever since its organ
lzation, is a research and service
organization for the collection and
distribution of information on occu-
pations for men and women. It's
research headquarters are at Con-
necticut College, in New London,
Conn, and its director is Mrs. Chase
Going Woodhouse.
One of its objectives is to serve as
a clearing house for information
on women's work and education.
Another is to reduce the cost to
business and industry of training
on the job" by providing informa-
ton to help in the choice OF a career
and training for it. BY the latter
procedure it seeks to eliminate the
"trial-and-error" method, so often
costly to employer and employe. It
also indicates the relation of COL
lege, professional and other courses
to particular occupations, advises
with groups and individuals in plan
ming conferences, and carries on re-
search so that these objectives may
be realized
This year, as last. the Washington
conference will center on War De-
mands for Trained Personnel" In
addition to the presentation and
discussion Of new problems, the data
obtained last year will be brought up
to date by means of industrial and
governmental reports prepared espe-
cially for the institute Representa-
tlves from 1913 colleges and univer-
sites, the personnel heads of 25
major Industries and numerous Cow
eminent executives will participate
in the two-day meetings and round
table discussions which will be held
at the Mayhower Hotel.
Mrs. Shouse has an impressive list
OF feminine firsts' to her credit.
Shortly after her graduation from
Wheaton College she was made as
slstant to the chief of the Women's
Public Employment Service, then in
the Labor Department. This was
during the World War. Her job was
to help in the setting of women's