HOME OR PROFESSION
WOMAN ENGINEER’S VIEW.
London, July 16.
“Housekeeping is quite as interesting as bridge building,” declares Mrs. William Fleming, the only woman Associate of the Institute of Civil Engineers, formerly Miss Dorothy Buchanan, who did intricate mathematical calculations . and drawings for the Sydney harbour bridge. She gave up a brilliant career to be married last year and thinks that housekeeping is a full-time job. “You cannot run a house and work outside as well, she says. “If you do anything well you get absorbed in it, and I am very interested in running my home. “I have taught myself to cook and control the household. I knew nothing about it before. I often design my own clothes, and I decorated the house myself. My husband is an engineer and I still keep in touch with the profession and watch new tenders, but only asan interested onlooker. When I was a child my hobby was engineering. Now I have made home work by hobby. I think that is the right way to look on life.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 7
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