CAREER FOR EVERY GIRL

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 February 1930, Page 5

CAREER FOR EVERY GIRL

COLLEGE PRINCIPAL’S VIEW. 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 Westffeld 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 other woman has attained the degree since. “It is a great mistake that the daughters of our aristocracy and well-to-do are not going into the universities to be trained for something,” she stated in an interview. “Instead, they go to some silly finishing school and then abroad for a year. “It is a great pity that they do not all go to the universities, us their brothens do. If they did they would not find themselves so badly fitted for public life as they are to-day. There is 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, mid i.nat many of the new careers tor women were opened only to one or t"o. “Women will have to prove themselves better than men before they can hope to obtain positions m any of the new professions now open to them,” she said. “Unless they do, there will always he the tendency to give the job to the man.” She regarded teaching as by far the i most interesting occupation for girls, and the medical and nursing professions offered splendid opportunities. “But,” she added, “to be a doctor, a nurse, or a teacher, a girl must have tremendous taste for the work.”