Career Woman And Homemaker

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 2

Career Woman And Homemaker

One of Canada’s outstanding career women is 32 years old, happily married, and has been named one of the country’s best-dressed women, writes Elizabeth Wood in the “Toronto Telegram.” She operates her own business successfully and is admired and equally liked by other careerists and homemakers. “She gives you the impression that she knows what she is doing,” business women commented to me at’ lunch one day. “She’s so well-organised.” Later, I remembered the career woman as I knew her eight years ago before she was married. She had just come to Toronto from another city where she had worked as a reporter. Ability After deciding she wanted to go into a different field of writing, she also concentrated on accomplishing several things she really wanted to do. She was plump then, not interested in looking fashionable and not tidy. But she had a great deal of ability. “When I set about changing my appearance, I had no thought of becoming a ‘best dressed woman,’ but once I started, I found I wanted to see how well I could do it,” she told me once. Tidiness She dieted, developed a slim figure, and learned the art of tidiness. Her cupboards and drawers bear inspection at any time and she keeps her husband’s wardrobe just as carefully. “Believe me, it took a lot of effort, to learn tidiness at this late date,” she confided once. I think the moral in this hard-to-believe success story is that this career woman has found that one good thing leads to another. While sh» was learning how to run her own business efficiently and successfully, she was applying the same methods to her personal life. She grew more beautiful as she became more efficient. The confidence which brings new clients to her business every year is a result of knowing that she isn’t burying her talents at home or the office.