CAREER FOR EVERY GIRL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 20

CAREER FOR EVERY GIRL

That every girl, no matter what her social position, should be trained for a career that will support her if necessary, is the opinion of Miss Eleanor Lodge, principal of Westfield College for Women (University of London), Hampstead, reports the "Daily Telegraph." Miss Lodge, who is a sister of Sir Oliver Lodge, is shortly resigning the post, which she has held for nine years. She was the first woman to receive the degree of Doctor of Literature at Oxford in 1908. Only one I other woman haa attained the degree since. "It i3 a great mistake that the daughters of our aristocracy- and well-to-do are not going into tho universities to bo trained for something," she stated in an interview. "Instoad thoy go to some silly finishing school and I then übioad for a'year. 1 "It if), a great pity that they do not all go on to tlio universities, aa rl'oir brothers do. I£,iibey*-did they would m:t find thomselvA so badly, fitffd for.

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public life as they are to-day. There ia too much of a tendency for our universities to be filled only with young women who know they will have to earn their own living, and who go there with that in mind." Turning to new openings for women, Miss Lodge, who was at one time chairman of the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women, said that many of the new careers for women were opened only to one or two. '' Women will have to prove themselves better than men before they can hope to obtain positions in any of the new professions now open to them," she said. "Unless they do, there will always bo the tendency to give tho job to tlio man." She regarded, teaching as by far tho most interesting occupation for girlsr and the medical and nursing professions offd-ed splendid < opportunities. "Hut," -sho .added, "to bo a doctor, a nupefe, bf a teacher, a girl must have I tremendous tasto for, the vrorfe-i'