Fashion illustration and miniature painting are recommended as uncrowded professions, while teaching, sick-nursing, and architecture have their advocates. An interesting point is the changing attitude to business life for women, which is termed worthy of the best trained brains in the country. One successful business woman advises girls to go into a shop and start at the bottom, with the hope of working up to the position of manager of a department or a buyer, and another suggests window-dressing and asks for a Store Education College.
The Times comments on the present situation follows:—
Up to the present the brightest among the suggestions made is that there is room in commerce for large numbers of educated women. Commerce has long lost the social stigma: when our sons are agents for motor-cars we need make no bones about our daughters selling hats or keeping accounts, In the noble professions of teaching and medicine there are openings for women; in the arts (including journalism) womanhood is no bar to success, But the problem is acute, and is likely to become more acute. Two principles seem to sential. The girls of the family mu: no longer be sacrificed to the boys, but must be trained as carefully, in proportion to their needs, since they must look to themselves for occupation and livelihood. And marriage must not be made, by any rule or custom, a greater disability to women workers than it may in the course of nature become.
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