The Archive · 1938

Fun Careers

Women who have to work for a living will heartily endorse Mrs, Eva Gasaway's opinion that any career chosen should be congenial, and one {o give fun and joy, so as to prevent the clock-watching habit. The speaker was addressing Chinese elubmen and speaking of Chinese women. We learn that many Chinese Indies of leisure are anxious to join the ranks of their sisters who have launched' into commercial and pro fessional rife, and who have made names for themselves, but Mrs.

Gasaway stresses that those seeking the fuller life wilt do it from choice ether than from necessity, and in order to develop their talents.

Aye, there's the rub. Not from necessity, and, not, to develop their talents!" "Unfortunately employers are $0 insensitive to women's needs that they almost insist that those they employ shall pit their energies towards developing the business. 10 which they put their hands, and are of a bit interested in the feminine necessity for self-expression. So long axa female employee brought grist to his dull "commerce! I the average man of commerce would not care one jot whether she developed pink or a purple aura, nor would he" bother "about her personal entertainment in office hours.

'A matron in a large hospital in Eng-and once told me that she had, as a probationer, a most charming Chi hose girl who proved herself to be a food little nurse for so long as she lected to take the training. On one occasion the Sister of the ward asked the young Chinese lady to give Mrs. "So-and So, in bed number three, a nasal douche. "Oh," replied the probationer," T know how to give nnesal_ douches, 1 have given we already." Apparently this young woman laboured under the idea that the patients were provided so that she could develop her nursing abilities at their expense. "However, our young Chinese friend was wise enough 10 eave the worst paid and most hard-driven profession for women in Eng land, and since she had ample means, who' could blame her?

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