Milford chronicle., 1962-04-06
Coed Job Hunting
BY JOY MILLER
AP Wompn'S Editor

practically the pOpulauOn OF Ia
coma, Wash will descend upon
the nations employers in search
of jobs.
What will be their reception
opened arms or closed doors?
A recent survey of 80 college
placement officials and so corpora
! tion personnel executives by the
Wall Street Journal indicates the
young women will have more jobs
to choose from this year-but the
positions won't necessarily b e
those dreamed of on campus.
This is the way it looks:
BEST BETS
New jobs opening in industry,
particularly for girls training in
mathematics and sciences.
Acceptance increasing ov
the clerical level in finance, par
ticularly insurance and banking.
old standbys still strong:
teaching, nursing, retailing, secre-
tarial and library work.
ROUGHER GOING
Business management jO S
practically inaccessible, not only
because of downright prejudice "a
gainst women as bosses, but be-
cause of a justified fear the girls
won't stay long enough to make
management training pay off
-Glamor fields advertising,
television, publishing, foundation
work have few openings for the
liberal arts graduate without a
speciality, except maybe as secre-
tary (if she is proficient at typing
and shorthand) to an executive
PAY POSSIBILITIES
Only women with scientific and
technical training likely to 6 e t
salaries on a par with men
One estimate puts W o m ms
salary lag behind mems pay for
equivalent positions at $50-$100
month
The survey points out that Labor
Department studies indicate a.
round so per cent of girl graduates
want full-time work. More than
third marry not long after getting
a diploma but a majority of these
will work anyway.
While most companies aren't "a
gainst cupid-or even motherhood
they don't see taking chances on
management level One official,
pointing out that the average col
lege girl stays only three years,
remarks:
she regards her job as an in
! teresting interim between school
and raising family. If we knew
a man was going to be with us
only three years, we wouldn't hire
| him"
| A New York department store
says retailing is one of the best
bets for a girl loking for a job.
And a university placement di-
rector says more girls are going
into retailing every year.
Yet one retailing executive who
recently cut the proportion of wo-
men employees in his store says:
We'll lose $4,000 by putting a girl
| through a training program only
to find that she insists on getting
married and having a baby"
Most college placement officials
agree perhaps the biggest demand
for women is in engineering, math-
ematicS and the physical sciences.
Says a placement officer at the
| University Of Michigan:
Women have just as good a
chance as men in any science
field and can earn comparable sal
aries
ElectrOnics Firms Interested
| Several electronics firms say
they're stepping up hiring of wo-
men. Another, which wants to-.
complains colleges don't have e.
nough girls specializing in e
fields in which it is interested
| Electronics firms frequently make
wide use of its technically trained
women in programing computers.
At least one big pharmaceutical
house finds women better suited
than men for some laboratory jobs
more patient and painstaking. :"
AS with the scientific and tech
nical fields, finance is opening up
| for women. More women are going
| into market research and invest
ments, and several Wall Street in
vestment firms now have training
programs for women college grad
uates. A San Francisco banker
says: Women are becoming more
important in the banking industry
than ever before. We don't have
enough of them"
insurance companies want wo-
men for training as actuari S
chats figuring out insurance rates
on the basis of life expectancies)
for electronic data processing jobs
and for selling.
But some industries still feel
women don't fit in at all, except
OF course, for clerical work. Says
the personnel director of a huge
company producing steel, alumni
mum and cement: 1--WE don't make
any effort to recruit women, be-
cause the opportunities are main
ly for men. Can you imagine a fe-
male chemical engineer in a ce-
ment plant?'
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