NEW IDEALS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 5

NEW IDEALS.

WORK FOR WOMEN. (FROM OTO OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, November 16. At the 67th annual meeting of the Society for Promoting the Training of Women (Women's Loan Training Fund), Mrs Corbett Ashby said that she had always been proud of being married, but she was beginning to realise how tremendously the married woman was indebted to the work of the professional woman. It was the high standards to which the unmarried woman had lifted her professions which enabled women to pick their work and their husband, since they were not driven to look on marriage as anything but the ideal and perfect companionship. That meant a lot for the standard of morals and ideals in this country. Fields of work, which she considered worth more attention for educated woman, were Poor Law nursing, research work tor firms, posts as political organisers, and work in connexion with children's institutions and the deaf and dumb. Cultured women were greatly needed as village nurses and teachers. The Government was only willing to assist girls overseas who were going as kitchenmaids, but she could not help feeling that educated women, fruit and poultry farmers would be a strength to the Empire.