No Enterprise

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 6

No Enterprise

——.♦ Authorities Complaint that Modern Girls Stay at Home TXTOMEN educationalists in England. ’’ waver between support and condemnation of a recent remark by Miss ( M Steel headmistress at Worcester Girls’ Secondary School, that "modern girls will not leave home.” Miss Steel urged girls to "take to heart the story of the spirit, and performance of the skipper of the Girl Pat (the Grimsby fishing trawler which crossed the Atlantic), who, whatever Ms critics might think, had imagination and pluck to do something unusual and adventurous well away from his home port.” Miss Steel's complaint was that too 3 many girls, on leaving school, are disinclined to look beyond the fiist year, ! and will not embark on careers of a 1 better type which are open to them. 1 The woman chief of one of London’s 1 biggest business training colleges said: L “There is more than a grain of truth and wisdom In Miss Steel's remarks, but the ways of adventure, travel, and unusual experience are, unfortunately, not too widely open to the young girl just starting out on her career. “What: must always weigh is parental control in the choice of a girl's first job. "I suppose that even women like Mrs. Aniy Mollison sought their adventurous places in the world by au ordinary business route when they first left school. “Girls find it easier to get work near their home circle, where they are known and where they can be helped.” Miss Margaret Tinsley, a distinguished American teacher from lowa, who is staying at Crosby Hall, Chelsea, j the London headquarters for Uulver-| Sity women from all over the world, said : “We have many teachers in the United States who think as Miss Steel does, but the majority of girls leaving school are forced, by economic conditions. into the dull routine jobs of shops and offices, against all their secret desires for bigger, more important, more exciting careers.” ’ - • •