Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
SAYS ANITA COLBY
There's Room at Top
When You Aim for 1t

The trouble right now In
Careerland. u. s. A., says
Anita Colby. Is that not many
women are aiming for the
top.
Back In the sos and 4Os,
women we're more apt n want
20 leave their domestioated
cages and 90 out and fight.
fight. fiRht Cor recognition.
I'VE owe those sisters be-
fore US. like Susan b. An
thony and the others, a great
debt" she says TO working
women today. But evidently
the fight may be going out
and replacing II may be q
lethargy that even women
may begin TO resent after
awhile.
Women today in business
have proved themselves sue
cesses. They know better not
70 compete with men. They
know that a woman's think
ing Is different from a mans
and the male business world
Is aware that a woman's
thinking is Just as good as a
mans in a great many cases"
says Anita Colby.
Adding 70 this point, she
inquiries, what mans mind
could possibly have conceived
that women want pink and
yellow refrigerators2" What
male mind. she says. could
have gotten the idea which
has Melted Elsie Frankfurter
OF Page Boy maternity FASH
ions millions Just by cutting
out a hole in her sisters skirt
and creating a whole matern-
ity fashion empire.
Then, too. there's Marian
Donovan who puts snaps on
diapers and came UP with
the "Boater" design for which
she Just sold the patent for
over q million dollars. These
women weren't content with
Just an idea. They scared to
the top with 1t.
In her new and revised
edition Of Anita Colby's
Beauty Book" by Prentice
Hall. she has devoted q
chapter to the some 20 mil
lion career women in the
United States.
Different Pattern
Women who work today
sometimes follow q different
pattern than the career girl
Of the sos. Then stage plays,
movies, radio and around
the-table family discussions
revolved around Would
Susie work after marriage?"
will Jane marry John and
give up that penthouse on
Fifth Avenue that she worked
so hard to get on her own
and live In a one-room effici-
ency?" mo daughter Of
mine works at Saks Fifth
Avenue" the financier father
who til then paid all her bills
at the store might have said.
Other women, having
paved the way for the young
women Of today in getting
any number of exciting and
glamorous jobs. look on the
new generation Of young
women with a strange mix
ture Of admiration and puz-
element. Coming out of
colleges they get jobs, may
marry Immediately, if not
married before they're out
Of college, quit the job after
baby comes, they go back to
work several years later. The
difficulty Is that then they
are out Of the direct fiow Of
people for the top because
they've been out Of the run
ming.
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In many cases, too, they've
lost their initiative and don't
aim for the top because they
want q 9-to-5 job without
any responsibi lity. Says
Anita Colby. who IL unmar-
married. these women don't
realize that It's easier on top,
there are longer vacations,
better pay, and frequently
there are people TO whom you
can delegate work.
Anita Colby, who has been
a top New York model, and
her famous model sister.
Francine Counihan attended
Mckinley Tech High School
in Washington. Francine's
daughter. Francine Lynn
Dixie. recently made her de-
but in Marshall, Va. Anita
Colby is a frequent visitor
to the home of Adele Astaire
Douglas In Middlebure with