WOMEN’S CAREERS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 65, 10 December 1926, Page 12

WOMEN’S CAREERS

HIGHER EDUCATION THE ; MEANS SSCAPE FROM DEPENDENT EXISTENCE A notable feature of present day English life is the great and rapidly growing demand for higher education, especially among women and girls. Some impressions of the movement were given in an interview by'~Miss E. H. Sandford, M.A., who has just arrived from England to become head mistress of the Auckland Diocesan High School for girls. Young women to-day, said Miss Sandford, were looking more and more upon education as the gateway to a career. They no longer cared for the prospect of dependent existence even when the means of the family were sufficient to give them comfortable incomes for life. Many of them also were pursuing education simply for its own sake without any definite idea of use to which they would put their learning in after life. It would be quite wrong to suppose' that young women who were flocking to Oxford and Cambridge as well as to such universities as London and Manchester were all school mistresses in the making; The disproportion of the sexes which had been increased by the war had led great numbers tb seek careers which required a good standard ~of education. All the universities were having difficulty in providing for would be women students. The halls and col- > leges at Oxford and Cambridge were 1 full and such institutions as the Bedford College for women attached to the London University were in much the same condition. It had been necessary •o enrol large numbers of extra colJegiate students.