WOMEN IN BUSINESS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1930, Page 2

WOMEN IN BUSINESS

NO LONGER CURIOSITIES

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2l

Take it from Aliss L. Connole, a modein Portia attending the directors’ meeting of the National Federation ol Business and Profe.sional Women's Clubs in Chicago, that most women are not in tlie business world because they want to be. She thinks they have been ■kicked out” of the borne, and furthermore, slu: says it is getting harder all the time for women to succeed because “chivalry has fallen into the ashcan.” Aliss Connole, who hung out her diingie when women attorneys were a novelty, expounded her views in commenting on a radio talk by Airs Thomas A. Edison, in which the inventor’s wife was reported as urging women to return to home-making, and pay less attention to the lure of professional and business careers.

‘‘And where,” asked Miss Connole “is the home we are to return to? Moreover, for nearly every woman who is working there is some man who has •fallen down on the job of providing for her support. Battling the world is not easy. Of course there are some women who aspire to fame, and others who are naturally independent, but the vast majority would not go out to work if they did not have to.

“A few years ago a woman in a business or a profession was a curiosity and aroused a man’s chivalry; but not now. Men are seeking to crush out the oppositeion, And they don’t always go about it in n nice way. They sometimes whisper that their feminine competitors are a bit peculiar, because of their short-cropped hair, their mannish tweeds, or their determination to succeed—or else they would be content to wash the dishes and let men have the jobs.” This war of the sexes, as she sees it, will not hinder marriage, for “romance has a way of surviving.” “Women will marry beacuse they want to establish a home, and not because they have to have a living.