IDEAL OF MODERN LONDON GIRL"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 8

IDEAL OF MODERN LONDON GIRL"

MARRIAGE—PLUS A CAREER EQUAL EARNING-POWER WITH HER HUSBAND (By Air Mail—From A Special Correspondent)

LONDON, sth September

Modern Miss Seventeen when she leaves school, plans the ultra-modern marriage with a career to follow the honeymoon, and equal earning power with her husband. She has definite ideas of when she wants to marry —the average is at the' age of twenty-five after she has been trained for her career and saved enough money to help with the honeymoon. These are some of the things twelve pioneer young women—careers mistresses from girls’ public schools -d revealed to Mrs Oliver Strachey, during a course of study with the Women’s Employment Federation, Westminster, of which Mrs Strachey is secretary. , “Careers mistresses deal with hundreds of girls, advising them on the difficulties of choosing jobs. They are finding more and more that many f’irls have thought out their own caieers” said Mrs Strachey this week.

“Many merely want marriage—marriage chances are the first thing a mistress assesses in a girl passing through her hands—and are content to go into shorthand typing, one of the easiest paths to the old-fashionec* marriage. , , “Others say—l want to marry, but not before I have received full training in a career which I can run in conjunction with my husband s dutThe girls who look ahead in this way wish to marry at about 25; the girl who wants the “old fashioned marriage—with home a full-time job hopes to do so in her very early twenties.