Woman Heads Firm

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 10

Woman Heads Firm

I REFUSED an increase of 4s 2d a week 28 years ago, Mary Dillon stepped out and made herself president of, the $2,400,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.,- just to prove ,that j women can make good in business, she explained recently- in New York. I j It took a little timo after she had' ! quit her job passing out bathing suits ,in a Coney Island bath house. First, j she became “sorts of office boy” for j the gas company..-Then in 1925, after :22 years of steady promotions, she j was made president of the firm, j Now she. advises other women ! j ambitious for a successful business ! ! career to get married and go to work, j 'Once married, she said: “They aren’t j | then so preoccupied with the man j I question. A career-in itself cannot j 1 satisfy 'a woman emotionally, and a j ,j business woman with an unhappy life carries over her emotional upsets to ; her work.”