WOMAN'S CREED OF WORTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 6 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S CREED OF WORTH.

The following " Woman's Creed of Worth" is published in an English paper :— I believe that every woman needs a skilled occupation doveloped to the degree of possible self-support, fine needs it commercially, for an insurance against reverses ; she needs it socially, for a comprehending sympathy with the world's workers; she needs it intellectually, for a constructive habit of mind which makes knowledge usable; she needs it ethically, for a courageous willingness to do her slip.re of the world's work ; she needs it pathetically, for an understanding of harmony relationships as determining factors in conduct and work.

I believe that every young woman should practice this skilled occupation, up to the time of her' marriage, for gainful ends with deliberate intent to acquire therefrom the widest possible professional and financial experience. I believe thai every woman should expect marriage to interrupt for some years the pursuit of _ any regular gainful occupation; that she should pre-arrange with her husband some equitable division of the family income such as will ensure a geniiiro partnership, rather than a position of dependence. (on either side) and that she should focus her chief thought during the early youth of her children upon the science" and art of wise family fife. I believe that every woman should hope to return, in the second leisure of middle age, to some application of her early skilled occupation—either as an unsalaried worker in some one of its social phases, or, if income bo an object, as a salaried worker in a' phase of it rcuiring maturity and social experience.