Women’s Opportunities

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 2

Women’s Opportunities

President Johnson has established a study group to “help open the doors of opportunity to every American wo m a n,” says a news release from the United States Information Service. “The time has come for the American woman to take her rightful place in our society,” the President said when presenting the annual Federal women’s awards. The awards —six, this year—are given yearly to outstanding women Federal employees. Mr Johnson announced at the ceremony that the present and past winners of the award, which began in 1960, would serve on the study k group. He said the group would probe the problems of

[working women: recommend ithe career fields which offer ! the greatest promise to 'women: suggest what colleges and universities could do to help young woman train for these fields: suggest Federal measures to change the attitude of employers toward women workers, and seek new ways of making Federal service attractive to able women. In spite of the many new avenues of opportunity now open to women, the nation was not doing enough, said the President. “The under-utilisation of American woman continues to be the last trar: and senseless waste of this century,” he said, noting that the nation would require 110,000 additional trained specialists in education, health, Government, scientific fields every month during the next decade. “That requirement cannot be met by men alone,” Mr Johnson said. “Unless we be-

gin now to open more and more professions to women—and train our women to enter these professions—the needs of this nation will not be met.”