WOMEN'S CAREERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 4

WOMEN'S CAREERS.

SPOILT BY LOVE.

BUSINESS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY. AMERICAN WOMAN TEUiS ENGLAND. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 17."Love is the great mischief maker," declared Miss Zonola Longstreth, America's most brilliant woman lawyer, in London this week. As European organiser of the Federation of Professional Women's Clubs, she is in London not only to foster the movement in Britain, but to make a national survey of "Why Women Work." "It's romance that makes a girl regard her job as a stop-gap until Prince Charming conies along," she said. ''No wonder the lipstick and the permanent wave are more to her than the typewriter and salesmanship. She dreams of marriage in comfort and pweet babies, instead of poverty and hard work. "That attitude, of course, automatically destroys her workaday life and prospects, and helps to bolster the boss's view that nun is the breadwinner, woman the homeirwker. and that no female, no matter ho* brilliant, is worth training for an executive job.

"There are millions of husbands to-day who can't afford to keep their wives, and the women are learning from bitter experience that a domestic career of bringing up a large family with a small income provides a far greater strain than the heaviest office or factory work.

"So woman, in taking her business life more seriously, resents low wages, and bad conditions, and feels she should eliare the plums. Industry and the profession, she rijfhtly argues, exist for the provision of jfoods and service in the most efficient manner possible. And the beet person' , she holds, "whether that person be male or female, should be in the best job.

"In that attitude lies trie future «f woman's working life."