A CAREER FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 8

A CAREER FOR WOMEN

WHY NOT. SAYS MADELEINE CARROLL. Careers for women —whether they be starring parts on the screen or clerkships in offlccs—are vigorously defended by Madeleine Carroll as a reply to a fast-growing movement to bar married women from employment. “It is ridiculous to say that a woman must stay at home because she is married,” Miss Carroll asserted. "If a married woman can be a successful author, or painter, or sculptor, or musician—as so many are —there is no objection, but let a married woman take a job as a secretary, a teacher —or even a clerk, and she suddenly finds herself a storm centre.

"There is no question of ‘stealing’ a job or keeping a man from working. You will usually find that the married girl and her husband are carefully saving towards the time when they can have a home and a family. When they reach that point, their savings will put many men to work in the building of that home. ]f the girl chooses lo continue working-then usually she gives employment to someone—maids, gardeners, cooks, some sort of household workers—to take care of her home for her.” Currently working in Paramount's “Honeymoon in Bali" Miss Carroll firmly believes that married women should have a chance to earn money in any profession they may select. Miss Carroll's present picture casts her as a business woman, though an unmarried one.