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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78898 ***
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+
+
+                         LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 705
+                 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
+
+
+                          100 Professions for
+                                 Women
+
+
+                           Betty Van Deventer
+
+
+
+
+                      HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS
+                             GIRARD, KANSAS
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Copyright, 1928,
+                        Haldeman-Julius Company.
+
+
+
+
+                PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                       100 PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                    ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE FOR WOMEN
+
+
+Fifteen years ago few women entered business or professional lives from
+choice. The woman who had no husband, father, or brother to support her
+was considered unfortunate. Woman’s delicate constitution was not
+considered consonant with the harsh, hurrying world of business.
+
+How times have changed! And how rapidly! Pride in economic independence
+is expressed ubiquitously today by women who earn their own living.
+There are fewer and fewer examples of the pitiful “poor relation” who
+must find her food and lodging in the home of some more affluent
+relative.
+
+Daughters of wealthy parents today plan careers. Although they will
+never have to earn their actual livings, they want the thrill of
+business, and the knowledge that they possess the ability to make their
+own ways in the world.
+
+The bachelor girl takes the place of the simpering old maid. In place of
+a parrot, knitting, and a porch rocking chair, the modern unmarried
+woman has the interest of the whole world through her business
+connections.
+
+If the married woman of today does not relish housework, she is at
+liberty to have a career in the business world. The percentage of
+married women who are working grows surprisingly every year, especially
+in the larger cities where more opportunities are found. The war, of
+course, gave a great impetus to this movement. Many women who had done
+war-time work found they could not be happy when they returned to the
+humdrum roles of housekeepers. Something was lacking—an excitement, an
+interest in big accomplishment rather than merely seeing that the
+breakfast dishes got washed. Just so with the girls who work before they
+are married. They may decide to settle down to being old-fashioned
+wives, wives who cook, mend, sweep, and wash for friend husband. Soon
+the novelty palls, and, in the great majority of cases, these young
+women return to their business lives.
+
+The greatest urge which women feel to earn their own livings is the
+glorious feeling of independence! No more asking father for money, no
+more explanations to friend husband about needing a new hat! Many wives
+have to plead for spending money, have to accept it as a gift. Is it to
+be wondered that they prefer their own pay envelopes?
+
+Economic independence for women is here to stay! Having tasted this
+divine nectar of freedom, women will not give it up. Nor would the
+average man have them. Business women of intelligence are very
+interesting. They have more in common with their men friends than the
+sheltered, stay-at-home girl. Men find real companionship with the
+well-informed woman. She need not lose her feminine charm and delicacy
+just because she happens to work in an office. For a long time there
+will probably be a sex jealousy between men and women in business. The
+homo sapiens just can’t get over—at least not very quickly—his idea that
+he stands supreme in the realms of business. It is up to the woman of
+tomorrow to show that she can hold the place she has won in the world of
+business affairs.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                        NEW FIELDS OPEN TO WOMEN
+
+
+The pre-war woman who faced the problem of earning a living had few
+doors open to her knocking. She might be a teacher or a stenographer. In
+this post-war era practically no line of endeavor has not been
+trespassed upon by woman. The sacred professions of law, medicine, and
+engineering have been invaded until woman’s place in these realms ceases
+to be criticized.
+
+Ability is the first reason for the success of women in industry. The
+feminine point of view has proved its worth in practically every form of
+marketing. As women do the great majority of the retail buying in the
+United States, women have been able to show the way to sell most
+effectively.
+
+It was predicted that women would not be able to stand the physical
+strain of the work-a-day world. While they do not possess the endurance
+which men have, they have proved constitutionally equal to their tasks.
+After all, housework is not a light physical labor and women have
+managed to do this for a long, long time. Fatigue is accentuated with
+boredom. Business offers more variety than sweeping and dusting.
+
+Another factor which must not be overlooked in this analysis of the
+woman in business is the economic. Women will work for less money than
+men will. Consequently, women have been employed many times to take the
+place of men. This has made some sex antagonism. As women become more
+experienced, they demand more money, although the rate of compensation
+for the same work is less for women. This should and will be adjusted in
+time.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                         100 PAYING PROFESSIONS
+
+
+Every girl should be equipped to earn a good living. Parents of today
+talk about fitting a girl for a business life just as much as a boy. Of
+course, the better trained person, the better educated man or woman
+makes a greater success in life. Girls should find where their
+interests, propensities, and abilities lie, and should begin early in
+life to develop these.
+
+The following pages give descriptions and enlightenment on a hundred
+professions in which women engage today. As this is an age of
+specialization, the peak of each profession will be emphasized. Many of
+the seemingly routine types of work can be made most interesting and
+valuable by specialization. The girl or woman starting a business career
+will do well to consider the many occupations open to her, and to choose
+with greatest wisdom. In business one may as well reach the top—it will
+prove not only more remunerative, but infinitely more interesting.
+
+The woman who has capital will be wise to launch a business for herself
+if she is well-equipped to handle this business. This is an excellent
+time for women to go into business for themselves. Here they can compete
+on equal footing with men. Profits take no consideration of sex. If the
+woman with capital is trained, she will be most injudicious if she does
+not acquire some experience in the same type of business she intends to
+operate. For example, suppose a woman wishes to start a dress shop. It
+will be well worth her while to work in a department store, a wholesale
+house, and a specialty shop before she starts out on her own. She must
+become educated in her business. She will be ahead even if she spends
+several years acquainting herself with all possible aspects of the dress
+business. Countless costly mistakes will be avoided.
+
+In the following resumés, the more unusual and the newer professions
+have been accentuated as they will prove of greatest interest to the
+girl or woman personally curious about the possibilities which the
+modern business world offers.
+
+
+(1.) _Accountant._ To become a private or public accountant, a woman
+must have considerable business experience and must know the practices
+of bookkeeping thoroughly. An accountant records, analyzes, and
+interprets the businesses of private individuals or of corporations.
+Auditing, which checks up the records of a business, is a form of
+accounting.
+
+The height of the profession is to become a Certified Public Accountant.
+One must pass rigid examinations to earn this title. Some women are
+registered accountants and practice successfully.
+
+Salaries for accountants are above the average, ranging from $35 a week
+to $100. Certified Public Accountants are in business for themselves, of
+course, and when they are successful they earn very substantial incomes.
+
+
+(2.) _Actress._ The stage today wants not only beautiful but
+accomplished girls. The young woman who cannot offer dramatic ability
+and training, or dancing, singing, or some other definite thing, will
+have a difficult time making her way behind the footlights.
+
+Vaudeville, the legitimate stage, and the movies all offer chances for
+fame and fortune. The chorus girl makes from $35 to $75 a week. The
+extra in the movie game must provide her own wardrobe. Work as an extra
+is uncertain and pays from $8 to $15 a day.
+
+Stars in any of the theatrical fields earn very high salaries, but only
+while the shows are playing. They live expensive lives as they can be
+assured of no permanency of location.
+
+
+(3.) _Adjustor._ Large corporations dealing with the public often employ
+women to adjust difficulties which naturally arise in transactions.
+Department stores, for example, have adjustors to handle merchandise and
+service complaints from customers.
+
+Adjustors must have good general educations, patience, and must make a
+good appearance. The salaries paid to them range from $25 to $50 a week.
+
+
+(4.) _Advertising Women._ Advertising is a field which offers limitless
+possibilities to women. Prejudice against them in this work is little,
+and their feminine point of view is considered most desirable.
+
+Copywriters, who write the text of advertisements, receive from $25 to
+$100 a week in salary. Account experts in advertising agencies receive
+as much as $200 a week. Women today occupy many executive positions
+which pay excellent salaries.
+
+Manufacturing plants, wholesalers, public utility organizations, mills,
+banks, department stores, and many other business enterprises employ
+women for advertising.
+
+
+(5.) _Americanization Work._ The war brought to a focus the need for
+teaching our great foreign population the meaning of the American
+government and the traditions of this country. Social workers were
+employed for this purpose. Schools now train students to teach
+Americanization. The foreign-born man or woman is taught enough so that
+he or she can intelligently pass the examinations for citizenship.
+Classes in English are held. Thus the parents do not get out of sympathy
+with their children who learn Americanisms in school.
+
+College educations are usually required for Americanization workers. Pay
+probably averages from $1,800 to $2,400 a year.
+
+
+(6.) _Antique Dealer._ The desire for antiques has spread over the
+country. Furniture, glass, and metal objects are at a premium provided
+they can be declared antique.
+
+Stores selling furniture and interior decorators employ women who know
+antiques. Many books have been written upon the subject. It is an
+interesting new field, especially adapted to women as they have an
+interest in home decorations.
+
+
+(7.) _Archeologist._ Archeology is the interpretation of past ages in
+the light of relics which are found of their civilizations. Exploration
+to find the relics must be made. Then examination and conclusions
+concerning the relics are made. Eventually historical data is
+established and written.
+
+Women are successful in archeology. They are members of expeditions as
+well as students in the field. A great background of history and science
+is required to be an archeologist.
+
+
+(8.) _Architect._ The master builders of today are not all men. Many
+women have entered the field of architecture and have made remarkable
+progress. Especially in the planning of homes do women excel. Large
+firms employ women to go over plans to see that the kitchen arrangements
+for a house or an apartment building are proper, to consider proportions
+of rooms for decorating purposes, and to specialize on clothes and linen
+closet plans. Women have also successfully designed public buildings.
+
+Of course, a college education is necessary for the woman architect. She
+will earn a good living if she is skillful.
+
+
+(9.) _Artist._ The emancipated woman enters the field of creative art on
+an equal footing with men. Writers, etchers, painters, sculptors, and
+musicians number many women among their famous today.
+
+As a profession, commercial art offers interesting occupation to women.
+Art applied to business, and particularly to advertising illustration
+may be studied in almost every city. Women who draw figures are called
+fashion artists. Others do lettering, decorative borders, etc.
+
+Artists on salary receive from $15 to $100 a week.
+
+
+(10.) _Athletic Coach._ Girls’ schools and colleges now stress
+intra-mural athletics and competent coaches are engaged. Some large
+business corporations also employ athletic coaches. Usually the coach is
+athletic herself and has had training in coaching. Wellesley offers an
+excellent course for coaches. Salaries range from $1,500 to $2,800 a
+year.
+
+Swimming coaches in schools, clubs, and at beaches can earn good livings
+teaching children and adults how to swim. The Red Cross employs
+lifesaving teachers.
+
+
+(11.) _Aviatrix._ Not to be outdone by man on land or sea—or in the
+air—milady has put on goggles and climbed into the pilot’s seat of an
+airplane. Flying schools report that women make adept pupils. At first
+women were only stunt and feature flyers. Some went in for parachute
+jumping. Today women are entering the field of transportation aviation.
+The industry is so new that no standards of compensation have been set.
+
+
+(12.) _Banker._ Banks have employed women in clerical positions for a
+long, long time. It is a fairly recent development to give women
+executive positions in banks. Today many business women are large
+customers of banks. They can now consult with women executives in banks.
+These women are called investment advisers. Other positions in banks
+filled by women are: teller, accountant, secretary, vice-president,
+treasurer and even president.
+
+
+(13.) _Beauty Expert._ This includes barbers, manicurists, masseuses,
+marcellers, etc. The woman who can give fashionable bobs is in great
+demand. So is the expert marceller. Masseuses are employed by clubs,
+hotels, and Turkish baths. Reliable beauty culture schools give courses
+of six weeks to three months duration. The beauty parlor operator will
+earn from $20 to $50 a week.
+
+
+(14.) _Biologist._ Besides teaching, women biologists find employment in
+federal, state, or community laboratories analyzing foods, studying
+water impurities, and even pathological plant life. The Department of
+Agriculture employs a number of women biologists in their experimental
+laboratories. The pay is rather small, averaging from $1,200 to $2,000 a
+year. Great study is necessary for biologists, usually advanced
+university degrees.
+
+
+(15.) _Bookkeeper._ This seems to be one of the less attractive
+professions for women. As it is almost mechanical, the woman with
+original thoughts will not wish to remain in this type of work
+indefinitely. It does offer good business training for the girl fresh
+from high school or business college. It is a trade which is an asset,
+too, as a woman can almost always find a job if she is a bookkeeper.
+Salaries vary from $12 a week to $40.
+
+
+(16.) _Botanist._ Research work in botany offers attractive
+possibilities to trained women. Botany as applied to agriculture is the
+chief present commercial use. Development of new and better species of
+producing plants are studied. Botany deals with all plant life. Botany
+is taught in many grade schools and in practically all high schools and
+colleges. Women fill these teaching positions very well.
+
+
+(17.) _Broker._ Brokers are mediums of communication between buyers and
+sellers. Women serve as brokers in real estate transactions, in stock
+and bond deals, etc. One woman has made a reputation as a produce broker
+in New York. She buys farm produce, chickens, eggs, etc., from produce
+houses throughout the country and sells these to commission merchants in
+New York.
+
+Women brokers are almost always in business for themselves, although
+they may be employed in brokerage offices. They have undoubtedly had
+years of business experience before they have entered this fascinating
+but risky form of business.
+
+
+(18.) _Buyer._ Buying for retail businesses is a great and extensive
+venture. Buyers occupy important positions in all department stores.
+They usually have risen from the ranks of salesgirls, although the
+modern tendency is to train college graduates for buying positions. A
+buyer must be shrewd as well as versed in the articles she is choosing.
+Ready-to-wear buyers are perhaps the most important in the store world.
+They command large salaries, and must, in turn, make sizable profits for
+their employers. In department stores the pay to buyers runs from $40 a
+week to $15,000 to $20,000 a year for the executive buyers.
+
+
+(19.) _Budget Adviser._ The modern housewife runs her home on a budget.
+She keeps track of what she has spent, and she makes systematic plans
+for what she will spend.
+
+Banks, trust companies, etc., employ women to give advice on budgets.
+Stores also have budget advisers. These experts figure out what
+percentage of incomes should be spent for rent, for food, for
+entertainment, for charity, for education, etc. They advise the public.
+They are paid not by the public but by companies which offer their
+services.
+
+
+(20.) _Camp Counselor._ Thousands of camps for girls are maintained
+every summer all over the country. The capable woman with some income
+who wishes to work for part of a year will do well to look into the
+positions of camp counselors. These adults direct the girls in
+athletics, in school work (where courses are being made up), and in
+social activities. Camp counselors should know out-of-door life and
+should like to be with girls.
+
+
+(21.) _Cashier._ A cashier is vested with much responsibility, although
+she is generally heavily insured, and she receives only fair pay. Her
+work is almost automatic, dealing with the making of change and the
+balancing of cash. Work as a cashier does not hold out a great future
+for a girl. Pay ranges from $12 a week to $25.
+
+
+(22.) _Cataloguer._ Private and public libraries employ specialists to
+do their cataloguing. Collectors of any rare objects of art or science
+have these treasures catalogued when their number has reached a
+sufficient volume.
+
+Studious, earnest girls can do this work and it often proves interesting
+to list the collection of years’ labor. Pay is small, averaging not more
+than $25 a week at the most.
+
+
+(23.) _Caterer._ The caterer prepares the food for large banquets, for
+parties, or merely for home entertainment. She must be an expert in the
+culinary line.
+
+This is a good business for the housewife to enter, provided she is
+untrained in another field. She solicits the lodges, clubs, churches,
+and homes for patrons. She suggests to them appetizing refreshments, and
+she then has these foods prepared in her place of business, and she must
+deliver them in good condition. The caterer also sends experienced
+people to serve the food. Dishes, linens, and silver may be rented from
+the caterer.
+
+
+(24.) _Chauffeur._ During the war, girls demonstrated that they could
+drive ambulances, and many of these weren’t light cars. In Philadelphia
+recently a taxicab company started with only girls for their chauffeurs.
+The girls are clad in natty, well-tailored uniforms, and they give
+efficient, courteous service to their customers. They report that they
+are not molested by flirtatious men. These girls have gone through a
+course of automobile mechanics.
+
+
+(25.) _Chemist._ There are many openings today for women chemists. They
+may teach, do research work, or enter the wide field of applied
+chemistry. Practically all high schools and colleges employ chemistry
+teachers. The government has many openings for chemists in the following
+departments: the Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Engraving, the
+United States Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Chemistry. State
+and municipal governments also have need of chemists.
+
+Industry utilizes the science of chemistry extensively. Experiments for
+future developments as well as tests of present productions are made.
+The woman chemist can do as well as the man, provided she has good
+training.
+
+Chemistry has a great future in industry. It serves not only the purpose
+of testing products but of developing great, new accomplishments. A
+chemist receives a fair salary, but will never get rich quickly from
+this profession. Women who are chemical laboratory workers receive from
+$20 to $65 a week.
+
+
+(26.) _Companion._ Here is a genteel, pleasant profession for the woman
+who fears to meet the bustling, strenuous business world. Many wealthy
+women and many invalids employ companions. The duties of these employees
+are centered in keeping their employers comfortable and interested.
+Today the demand is for women of culture as companions. Take invalids,
+for example; they will want some companionship as well as some care.
+
+Women of means sometimes employ traveling companions. Their duties
+consist of taking care of reservations, accompanying their employers on
+boats, trains, and other excursions. They are expected to make
+themselves generally agreeable as well as useful. One duty of the
+companion is to read aloud. She must do this with intelligence and
+interest.
+
+All of the expenses of the companion are paid. She can have little
+separate life of her own. She will receive from $50 to $150 a month.
+
+
+(27.) _Comparative Shopper._ The majority of large stores in this
+country maintain shopping departments, or, as they are often called,
+comparative values departments. It is the duty of these departments to
+see that no other stores in the same locality undersell their store. For
+example, they compare the merchandise in the various departments with
+the same merchandise in other stores and report the differences in
+price.
+
+For this type of work, stores like to employ women for part time,
+although full time comparative shopping jobs are given. The shopper must
+not become known in other stores. This is a good occupation for married
+women who know the values of merchandise and who wish to devote part of
+their time to earning money.
+
+For full time work comparative shopping pays about $25 a week in large
+stores. Part time workers are paid from 50 cents to $1 an hour.
+
+
+(28.) _Comptometer Operators._ In big businesses much of the clerical
+work is done on adding and other calculating machines. Today business
+schools offer courses to train girls to run these machines with speed
+and efficiency. These girls are called comptometer operators. Their work
+is purely mechanical, and practice makes them improve in speed. If a
+girl wants this type of work, she is paid fairly well. Novices usually
+start at $15 or $20 a week. The most expert and swift comptometer
+operators will not make over $50 a week.
+
+
+(29.) _Cook._ Girls who love the mystery and the excitement of mixing
+flour, sugar, and eggs together must not turn up their noses at the idea
+of cooking as a profession. Of course, it is not meant that these girls
+will go in private homes as servants. Today a cook in a great hotel,
+club, or restaurant is an honored person and must be an educated person.
+He or she must know values of foodstuffs, the chemistry of cooking, and
+the likes and dislikes of the great and petulant public. The histories
+of foods of foreign countries must also be familiar to them.
+
+Chefs, or cooks, in hotels and clubs receive very good salaries. The
+most famous of them are said to earn $10,000 a year. That is unusual, of
+course. The average good cook in a public eating place receives from $40
+to $100 a week. They have their assistants to do the menial work, and
+only the general planning and supervising is left for them.
+
+
+(30.) _Copyist._ This work is semi-artistic. Today manufacturers of
+style merchandise, including clothing and accessories, are constantly on
+the lookout for something new. They buy models from Paris and other
+fashion centers and want them copied in perhaps less expensive
+materials. Copyists not only reproduce models patterned after originals,
+but they copy styles of other concerns, of retail stores, of any new
+style source which they can find. They must be able to recognize new
+styles and to sketch them not artistically, but understandably. Salaries
+paid vary from $15 a week to $35. Of course, New York, Chicago and other
+large cities are the only localities for copyists.
+
+
+(31.) _Correspondent._ This does not refer to legal situations.
+Correspondents handle the letters of organizations. Many times they have
+charge of form letters which are used for usual queries. The heads of
+correspondent departments are usually responsible women who must meet
+situations with common sense. Correspondents also write letters for
+companies. Therefore, they must know the English language and its use in
+business letters. Correspondents in smaller concerns write their own
+letters, therefore a knowledge of typewriting is required. In larger
+concerns they dictate either to stenographers or dictaphones.
+
+
+(32.) _Credit Women._ Here is an interesting occupation for the keen,
+alert woman. Today much business is done on credit. Every organization
+which sells on time as well as every organization which maintains thirty
+day credit must have people to pass on the desirability of applicants.
+Past credit records must be investigated. Almost all cities of any size
+have credit rating companies. Thus professional deadbeats cannot keep up
+their game as their reputations are recorded.
+
+It is not uncommon for a store to have a woman as credit manager. Her
+job is important and well paid. The girl who would enjoy such a type of
+work should get a job in a credit office of a store or in a credit
+bureau. She will learn the business from the ground up—and it is a
+calling which has a future. Salaries paid to credit managers range from
+$1,800 a year to $6,000. Women seem to be particularly successful in
+this certain profession and there seems to be little prejudice against
+them as credit executives.
+
+
+(33.) _Critic._ Critics are supposedly students who are educated in
+literature, in painting, in music, or in any other art, and can
+crystallize their impressions and beliefs into convincing form for the
+public.
+
+Newspapers have dramatic, music, and art critics. The movie critic, too,
+is not to be overlooked as she is often a woman. Women make good
+critics—as any husband will testify. Seriously speaking, they have the
+analytic faculty and it is being recognized by newspapers and magazines
+who need this writing.
+
+When critics get reputations, they often add lecturing to their means of
+earning money. Lecture bureaus furnish speakers for hundreds of clubs
+and schools all over the country.
+
+One cannot get to be a critic in a day. One must first become an expert
+in judging some particular form of art and must acquire a reputation not
+only for sagacity but for clarity in expressing points of view. The
+financial standings of critics vary greatly. Those with commanding names
+draw the large salaries while the minor ones are paid only fairly well.
+
+
+(34.) _Demonstrator._ Many new devices have been introduced into
+American homes by demonstrators. Consider vacuum cleaners, for example.
+Women often do this demonstrating. Stores, too, have demonstrators for
+beauty culture articles such as creams, powders, etc. Electrical
+refrigeration companies, gas and electric stove companies, and many
+other organizations of similar type use women demonstrators. To be a
+demonstrator a woman must have a clean appearance. She must be able to
+answer questions sensibly and convincingly. Demonstration gives women a
+chance to travel, an aspect which appeals to the more adventurous
+younger generation. Chances for futures in this work are not as good as
+in many other lines, but the work itself is interesting. Salaries range
+from $18 a week to $35.
+
+
+(35.) _Dentist._ Dentistry has been attracting women for quite a number
+of years. It is a technical profession in which women have made a good
+name for their sex. Women dentists seem to be particularly successful
+with children patients; perhaps they have a better understanding of the
+emotions of children which dental work surely calls forth.
+
+The value of teaching children how to care for their teeth has been
+realized and women dentists are employed to teach dental hygiene in
+schools, settlement houses, etc.
+
+Many institutions have resident dentists who care for the teeth of their
+employees. Such institutions include stores, factories, large insurance
+houses, banks, etc. Women fill these institutional jobs most
+satisfactorily. Salaries paid to resident dentists vary from $1,800 to
+$3,600 a year.
+
+
+(36.) _Designer._ Designing is one of the most fascinating and
+successful fields for women to enter, provided they have the talent and
+the training. Almost every article manufactured is first designed—which
+includes the conceiving of the object and its practical planning. Women
+designers enter every field—including the designing of furniture,
+lighting fixtures, fabrics, apparel, and costumes.
+
+The fabric designer has a fascinating work. She deals with colors, with
+designs, and with all the practical sides of the manufacture of a
+printed or blocked material. Cretonne designing is a gigantic business
+in itself. Think of the hundreds of different patterns turned out every
+year. These must all be designed first. Art schools specialize in fabric
+designing courses.
+
+Costume designing is an alluring occupation. Almost every New York
+dramatic production has its costume designer. Of course, any historical
+presentation must be correctly as well as beautifully costumed. Revues
+and musical comedies make a great thing of gorgeous, bizarre, and
+exquisite costuming. Again, some expert designer has worked out the
+costumes.
+
+The greatest commercial use of designing is in the manufacture of
+wearing apparel—dresses, coats, hats, scarfs, lingerie, etc. Every
+season the designers must anticipate the popular trends of styles and
+make garments which will meet the demands of the public. Paris is
+followed closely. The designer must also be a business woman as she can
+suggest only styles which lend themselves to sensible manufacturing.
+When the expense of a garment does not matter, she is not so limited.
+When, however, she is designing a dress to sell at a certain price, she
+must take into account the amount of material required, the workmanship,
+the trimmings, etc.
+
+The most prominent designers spend much time abroad, always on the
+lookout for new and feasible ideas. Their expenses, of course, are paid.
+Salaries for designers have a wide range, depending upon originality and
+experience as well as technical ability. Beginners start at $35 a week.
+Some of the famous designers are reputed to command salaries as great as
+$50,000 a year. While there are many competent men in this species of
+work, woman holds her own without a single apology.
+
+
+(37.) _Detective._ Employment may be obtained by women on both private
+and government detective forces. In private agencies, women often prove
+valuable as they can work subtly. A good looking woman with brains can
+find out many secrets which a male detective would never discover in a
+hundred years. Women detectives are required to go into many dubious
+places and they must run up against unpleasant and sometimes dangerous
+people. For the woman who likes excitement, the work might be pleasing.
+
+Policewomen now patrol dance halls, theatres, and other public places of
+amusement. They have as their province the safety of the girl in the
+city. Policewomen are usually at least thirty years old, sensible, and
+with a social point of view on the problems of women and girls.
+
+The secret service, the aristocracy of this type of work, too, employs
+women. This verges on diplomatic work.
+
+Salaries paid to private women detectives vary from $20 to $75 a week.
+Policewomen receive the same remuneration that policemen do.
+
+
+(38.) _Diplomat._ For all time women have played their unofficial parts
+in the diplomatic world. Who, for example, is more important than the
+wife of an ambassador or of a consul? It is only recently, however, that
+she has been admitted into the consular service of the United States. At
+present there are only a few vice-consuls who are women. However, the
+barrier is down now and more women will fill these positions in the
+future.
+
+To enter the consular service, women, just like men, must take the
+consular examination in Washington. Pay is very small and an outside
+income is most useful to those in the diplomatic service.
+
+
+(39.) _Doctor._ In all branches of the profession hundreds of women are
+doing splendid work. An increasing number of students who register in
+medical colleges are women. Their scholastic standing equals those of
+the men students. Now the prejudice against women doctors is greatly
+overcome. Hospitals which used to discriminate against them have ceased
+to do so, and many women internes are found in the leading hospitals of
+the country.
+
+Women enter general medical practice as well as the specializations of
+the calling. In Pediatrics, or the science of children’s health, women
+are singularly successful. A Pediatrist cares for children from birth to
+the age of sixteen.
+
+In medicine there are institutional opportunities for women in schools,
+hospital staffs, and large corporations. Practically all girls’ schools
+and women’s colleges have women doctors.
+
+In public health work, too, women doctors are in demand. Many women who
+write a Dr. in front of their names go in for medical research work, a
+limitless and valuable domain. Here they study the natures and try to
+find out the causes of many diseases which ravage the world.
+
+Dietetics is an interesting medical profession. Women can be dietitians
+without graduating from medical school and entering the profession. All
+hospitals and sanitariums of any size employ dietitians.
+
+Women doctors in institutions may earn from $2,400 to $10,000 a year.
+The study of medicine and the preparation for the profession is a
+difficult, long process. Seven years is the average medical course in a
+college. Then a year to two years of interneship in a hospital is
+required. Specialization demands further study.
+
+
+(40.) _Draftsman._ A draftsman draws plans for machinery, structures, or
+places. Women have done this highly technical work well. They must be
+trained in this particular kind of work thoroughly. High schools
+frequently offer courses in draftsmanship. Engineering colleges almost
+always teach it. Unless a girl is very mechanically minded and likes the
+detail work involved, this profession does not offer an unusual amount
+of inducement.
+
+
+(41.) _Dramatic Coach or Director._ In school work, community pageants,
+and on the professional stage, women have the chance to direct plays and
+other theatrical presentations. The woman who wants to adopt this work
+should know the art of elocution, the literature of the stage, and the
+principles of scenic and lighting effects. She must have the ability to
+direct a whole organization.
+
+Dramatic coaching in schools is usually done in conjunction with some
+other work, usually teaching. The coach helps the students to prepare
+and present their class plays and their other school entertainments.
+
+In this country there are bureaus which provide coaches to clubs, to
+civic governments, and to any person or organization which intends to
+put on a play, a pageant, or a festival.
+
+The field of directing commercial dramas is dominated by men. Still,
+women do act as dramatic directors and several have made outstanding
+successes in this work. It is a hard profession to enter. Eva La
+Galliene, for example, directs her repertoire theater. She arrived at
+this position after years of work as an actress. She still acts in her
+presentations.
+
+
+(42.) _Editor._ Newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses maintain
+staffs of editors. It is their duty to accept material and to see that
+it is in proper condition for publication.
+
+In the newspaper game, not many women become managing editors. The
+common editorial positions which women fill are: society editor, fashion
+editor, home economics editor, and school editor.
+
+Magazines and publishing houses value the services of women editors
+greatly. The fashion magazines must be run by women. Fiction, travel,
+and informative current event magazines all employ women in editorial
+capacities.
+
+The feminine point of view is important to publishers. Women edit, as a
+rule, the children’s books. To become an editor, one must have a good
+education, be and remain well-read, and know what the public will buy.
+The ability to recognize merit in new writers is also important.
+
+Editorial positions on magazines pay quite well, ranging, for
+assistants, from $40 a week to $10,000 and even more for full-fledged
+editors. In the publishing world, editors do not receive such good
+money. The field is always full as many a college girl plans and hopes
+to enter the editorial field.
+
+
+(43.) _Educational Director._ Stores, factories, banks, and other large
+institutions now have educational departments not only to train their
+employees in their own systems of business but to give them broader
+general educations. Classes are maintained. In stores the sales people
+receive instruction in the nature of fabrics, in the history of
+furniture, in everyday psychology, and in the specific system of the
+store. There is always an educational director with assistants.
+
+This is a rather new type of work and a most excellent variation from
+ordinary teaching. Several colleges give courses in educational work for
+institutions. In Boston is a school called “The Prince School” which
+teaches store educational systems.
+
+Pay for educational directors varies from $2,400 to $8,000 a year. Her
+assistants receive from $35 to $75 a week.
+
+
+(44.) _Explorer._ Women have had their parts in the exploration of the
+world. Present day explorations are conducted to gain scientific data
+for the most part. Women who are trained in some special work of science
+have found interesting times in exploration. Will Beebe, the fascinating
+explorer, has employed women as laboratory workers and historians on
+some of his adventurous trips. Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson have made
+notable exploration trips in Africa. They study wild animal life. Mrs.
+Johnson drives a truck, shoots a rifle accurately, cooks, and does
+whatever is necessary. Together they take motion pictures and collect
+interesting material.
+
+
+(45.) _Exporter or Importer._ Many women engage in buying foreign
+merchandise or in selling American-made products abroad. Some work for
+exporting or importing firms and the more ambitious are in business for
+themselves.
+
+In novelties, gift articles, and apparel women are especially successful
+importers. Much pottery, lace, china, and glass is imported by women.
+They, in turn, sell it to wholesale houses or to retail shops.
+
+One woman is a successful exporter of American sewing machines. Another
+exports American shoes which are in great demand in Europe.
+
+The best way to learn this business is not through schools and books but
+by actual experience. Customs must be thoroughly understood. It is well
+to speak foreign languages, too.
+
+
+(46.) _Farmer._ The call of the land—the feel of the soil—is not
+confined to men, alone. Many women love next-to-nature life on farms,
+although it proves very strenuous. Women do manage vast grain farms, and
+they do it well. Probably more women run truck farms, raising fancy
+vegetables for table use. Still more women operate chicken farms. With a
+good market nearby, poultry farming is a good industry. Eggs and
+chickens are in demand all the year around, and extra money can be made
+by the sale of ducks, geese, and turkeys at holiday times, as every
+farmer knows.
+
+Agricultural colleges offer splendid courses in modern farming. Rotation
+of crops, animal husbandry, and necessary sciences of farming are
+sensibly taught. The woman who is planning the vigorous life of a farm
+will be well-equipped with this knowledge, although she can obtain it
+from books if she wishes to do so.
+
+
+(47.) _File Clerk._ The careful keeping of correspondence and other
+records is a necessary part of any office work. While filing is
+considered a rather ordinary task, it is considered highly responsible
+in many business organizations. The head of a filing system in a large
+company has an important position. By diligent work, and always
+meticulous filing, a girl can work herself up to a good position as the
+woman in charge of filing.
+
+The ordinary file clerk makes from $10 to $25 a week. Chief file clerks
+make as much as $70 a week.
+
+
+(48.) _Florist._ What woman doesn’t love to handle flowers? To arrange
+them? To see them constantly? Among the loveliest flower shops in the
+country are those managed and owned by women. Women are also pleasantly
+employed in florist shops. They learn how to make corsage, wedding and
+funeral bouquets. They come to know the seasonableness of various
+flowers.
+
+Clerks in florists’ shops are paid from $12 to $35 a week. If a woman is
+thinking of owning a flower shop, she should work in several first
+before opening hers as there are many ins and outs in the floral
+business.
+
+
+(49.) _Geologist._ Geology, the study of the surface and inside
+structures of the earth, offers a limited but engrossing sphere of
+opportunity. The life of the prospecting geologist is physically very
+vigorous, but, even so, women tackle this work and like it. The majority
+of women geologists, however, teach or do research work. In oil geology
+there centers the most commercial interest. At present in the United
+States Geological Survey, a woman geologist is engaged in research work
+concerning the micro-organisms of oil-producing rocks and sands.
+
+Mineralogy, or the study of minerals, is a branch of geology which women
+have entered. At the present time, little exploring for new ore mines is
+taking place as the present mines supply well the world’s metal needs.
+Consequently, analysis of rocks, or mineralogy, is more or less at a
+standstill from a business point of view.
+
+
+(50.) _Guide._ In these days of extensive travel, there are interesting
+chances for professional guides. In Paris and other European cities, a
+number of intelligent young American women have become guides. They not
+only show tourists famous historical places and museums, but they direct
+the anxious shoppers to the best stores and specialty shops, the
+out-of-the-ordinary eating places, the quaint inns, etc. Knowledge of
+the native language is necessary.
+
+Steamship and travel companies which arrange tours often have cultured
+young women as guides and assistant guides. All of their expenses are
+paid, of course. They must read up the histories of the places to be
+visited, acquaint themselves with the customs of the countries, and
+assist in the details of passports and baggage examination care at
+ports. On board ship these guides make themselves generally agreeable to
+the passengers, playing hostess at ship entertainments.
+
+Salaries paid to these guides are naturally small, as women are anxious
+to take the trips. One large tourist company pays these guides $75 a
+month, plus expenses. This amount gives the young women money for
+clothes and pocket money.
+
+
+(51.) _Home Economist._ Domestic women with a scientific turn of mind
+like to delve deeply into home problems. Some of them study home
+economics merely to teach, others put this knowledge to other commercial
+uses.
+
+Large flour companies, canning companies, and other food producing
+companies employ home economists and provide them with extensive
+experimental laboratories. Here they test out new recipes, new uses, and
+prove old contentions concerning food values and delectabilities.
+
+Stores use home economists in advisory capacities. Magazines which deal
+with home problems also have on their experimental and editorial staffs
+women trained in this particular lore. In the whole field of home
+dressmaking, many women are employed as expert consultants. Pattern
+companies, yard goods stores, and sewing machine companies have home
+economists to inform prospective customers as to the most effective ways
+to make their own wardrobes.
+
+
+(52.) _Hostess._ The hostess in any public place—be it a tea room,
+hotel, or club—must radiate dignified, reserved hospitality. She speaks
+for the business and her personality is very important. She adds
+intimacy without familiarity.
+
+In a tea room or cafe she often seats people, taking the place of the
+more commercial head waiter. It is the fashion now to be informal in
+public places. Then she sees that the customers receive prompt service,
+and she tries to provide any unusual courtesy which occurs to her.
+
+The duties and privileges of hostesses vary with every establishment. In
+some hotels the hostess resides in the hotel and helps patrons who want
+advice on shops, excursions, and theaters. She may preside over the
+hotel library.
+
+The hostesses spoken of may be older women, and most frequently are
+women of social standing who have had financial reverses. They find
+themselves equipped to meet the public and to be professionally
+gracious.
+
+In this jazz day, there is another type of hostess in the merry
+whirl—the hostess at the night club. She may be a bright, attractive,
+and above all wise young woman. It is she who decides who will spend the
+most money in the club—and she gives these parties the most desirable
+tables. She must be a good sport and not take offense at any too
+personal remark which may be cast in her direction. In some clubs she
+must dance with any of the men who invite her. She may even be called
+upon to furnish some entertaining.
+
+Hostesses receive from $15 a week in the small tea rooms to $75 a week
+in the flourishing night clubs.
+
+
+(53.) _Housekeeper._ Large estates have women employed as head
+housekeepers. They sometimes do the duties which butlers have done, that
+is, assume charge of the servants and of the household supplies. In a
+domicile of many servants, rooms of linens, and vast food stores, the
+housekeeper has a very trustworthy occupation. She is paid from $90 to
+$150 a month and receives her maintenance.
+
+Most hotels have head housekeepers. Under them are all the chamber
+maids. The housekeeper in a hotel is responsible for keeping the rooms
+in order. She frequently buys the linen supplies. She takes charge, too,
+of the vast laundry done for the hotel.
+
+Housekeepers in hotels usually receive a room and meals. They are paid
+from $60 to $300 a month. The latter figure applies to the very large
+hotels, of course.
+
+
+(54.) _House Mother._ School dormitories and school fraternities and
+sororities have house mothers. They plan the food, manage the servants,
+and act as guides, philosophers, and friends to the girls or boys who
+live in the houses.
+
+Women who are accepted in schools as house mothers are usually
+middle-aged women of genteel background and sympathetic nature. Their
+actions will be watched and imitated by the children, and therefore
+their manners must be above reproach. The salaries they receive vary
+from $75 to $150 a month. They receive, of course, maintenance.
+
+
+(55.) _Interior Decorator._ Here is a veritable Elysium for women!
+Hundreds of them have entered the profession of interior decoration, and
+many of them have done remarkable work.
+
+The interior decorator for the home helps with the selection of
+furniture, curtains and draperies, lamps, rugs, pictures, tapestries,
+dishes, ornaments of any kind, and even the linens. Perhaps the
+decorator is called into consultation with the architect. They plan
+color schemes and room proportions together. The decorator may go to
+Europe to select certain articles. Modest homes, too, are now employing
+decorators.
+
+Interior decorators receive fees for their services. Besides this they
+get a commission for the articles which they sell. They may even carry
+furniture, pottery, fabrics, etc., themselves.
+
+Stores which sell furniture and home needs often employ young women as
+consulting interior decorators. Customers come to them with their home
+beautifying problems. These young decorators receive from $25 to $150 a
+week. In large stores which specialize in this, the experienced interior
+decorator may make as much as $10,000 a year. There are only a few
+stores in the country which have such extensive departments.
+
+
+(56.) _Insurance Agents._ Women sell insurance very successfully. They
+also hold down other jobs in insurance offices, such as manager of the
+woman’s department, research worker, or financial expert.
+
+Women are adept in selling all kinds of insurance, life, fire, tornado,
+accident and health, plate glass, etc. They can talk well and they have
+enthusiasm for new work.
+
+Women sell other women insurance well. They can talk on an understanding
+basis with each other.
+
+Another branch of insurance which women succeed in is the Workman’s
+Compensation Act. This is regulated by law. However, adjustments and
+claims must be made. The social worker who specializes in this type of
+insurance represents the working man with his claim.
+
+
+(57.) _Jeweler._ Precious stones, gleaming metals, rare craftsmanship,
+and a general environment of loveliness is what the jewelry business
+offers to women. The majority of positions are selling ones, but they
+are fascinating. High types of girls are demanded for this work. They
+are, it goes without saying, placed under bond. The wise girl who gets a
+position in a jewelry store or the jewelry department of a large store
+will study metals and precious stones. There is much of consuming
+interest to know.
+
+
+(58.) _Journalist._ Many a girl has the ambition to do newspaper work.
+To be a reporter! It is a lively, consuming profession which more and
+more women enter continually. It is a game of the survival of the
+fittest. One must have a nose for news, or a propensity for the feature
+story type of writing. Reporting is hard work. It means long chases
+after sometimes futile stories, tedious waits for personages of
+interviewing importance, and sometimes great strains physically. Not all
+of the work, by any means, is interesting. Long lists of graduates, for
+example, have to be copied. Countless dull stories must be written.
+There is the other, thrilling side, too. Getting a “scoop” which means
+getting a good story before another paper has it—that is a thrill which
+the reporter loves best.
+
+Women reporters are sometimes called “sob sisters.” This means that they
+write human interest stories—play up emotions, dwell on
+sentimentalities, and sometimes use exaggerations. Women are very agile
+reporters. They are often most resourceful and clever.
+
+The top notch positions in journalism are those with syndicates.
+Syndicates sell feature stories to many newspapers. The woman who writes
+for them is very well paid and her writings are published extensively so
+that she acquires a reputation.
+
+Reporters on papers receive from $15 to $125 a week. They have expense
+accounts for money used in traveling for the paper.
+
+
+(59.) _Laboratory Technician._ Medical laboratories have a demand for
+trained workers who assist in the analyses and do chemical work in blood
+tests, etc. Sometimes these laboratories are in conjunction with
+hospitals, and again they may be part of a doctor’s office. Still other
+laboratories are run independently and physicians send work to them.
+
+City and state health departments maintain laboratories where cultures
+are examined, where water and milk are examined to see if the germ
+content is dangerous. Women occupy positions frequently in such
+laboratories. They are paid from $20 to $40 a week and must be trained.
+
+
+(60.) _Landscape Gardener._ Home owners who covet everything beautiful
+for their surroundings employ landscape gardeners to plan the shrubs,
+trees, flowers, walks, arbors, and all growing things and decorations in
+the gardens, lawns, and orchards. Women have gone in for this landscape
+gardening wholeheartedly.
+
+A knowledge of horticulture is necessary to the well-equipped landscape
+gardener. She must know what seasons the various flowers bloom so that
+she can plan continually blooming parts of the garden. She must know
+what soils nourish which plants the best. She must have a good sense of
+color and of form.
+
+Large firms of architects employ landscape gardeners. Nurseries need
+them, too. Many landscape gardeners are in business for themselves.
+Cities and state governments use landscape gardeners to make public
+buildings look as well as possible. Landscape gardening in parks is a
+most necessary feature.
+
+Salaries paid to landscape gardeners vary from $1,500 to $8,000 a year.
+Every piece of work, when a woman is in this business for herself, is
+charged for separately, as in other professions.
+
+
+(61.) _Lawyer._ A woman lawyer used to be considered somewhat of a
+freak. Now she is respected and admired. Although women have not invaded
+law as they have medicine and some of the other professions, they are
+making significant inroads. They have been uniquely successful in
+maintaining positions in the national, state, and municipal legal
+forces.
+
+Women do try cases in court splendidly. Furthermore, they prove
+admirable in probate or estate work. In the domestic relations courts
+they evince a basic understanding of legal situations which involve
+emotional conflicts. In children’s courts, too, they prove their right
+to be in the honored profession of law. More and more trust companies
+are finding women lawyers suitable for their legal work.
+
+
+(62.) _Librarian._ The girl who is interested in quiet, intelligent, and
+rather modestly paid work, will do well to interest herself in
+libraries. They may be divided into these classes: public, school,
+technical, and private. Everyone knows public libraries and the way they
+function. The larger libraries have subdivisions in which librarians
+specialize. For example, a woman may be a children’s librarian or a
+reference room librarian. The librarian can be a great influence for
+good in the community as she can help to direct the reading of men,
+women, and children. Many ideas are formed by reading.
+
+School and technical libraries require trained workers, too. The
+librarian in a school should have a fresh, youthful point of view. She
+must assist the student in reference work, give him inspiration, and
+keep all the many details of her work in good order. Medical and legal
+associations maintain libraries for reference and research work. Capable
+women often take charge of these.
+
+Private libraries are maintained by extremely wealthy people, by
+scholars, and by collectors. Some of these private collections of rare
+books are interesting beyond description. Librarians for these jeweled
+shelves keep the books well catalogued, entertain guests with
+information concerning the volumes, and assist their employers if they
+are using the library for any particular piece of work.
+
+Colleges now have courses for library work. There are distinct schools
+for librarians, too. Salaries are not munificent, averaging from $60 to
+$300 a month. Some head librarians of large institutions receive as high
+as $6,000 a year. They are few and far between.
+
+
+(63.) _Mechanic._ Traditionally women are most awkward with a hammer, a
+monkey wrench, or a screw driver. They, themselves, have come to accept
+the notion that they cannot be mechanically adept. Every once in a while
+this contention is heartily disproved. A woman is noted who is a garage
+worker—or who owns a garage. One large American city boasts an expert
+woman plumber. In this day and age, if a woman is interested in any
+mechanical pursuit—from engineering to operating a steam shovel—there is
+no reason why she cannot follow out her own desires. More power to her!
+
+
+(64.) _Merchandise Expert._ Stores have large corps of buyers; a
+tendency in modern storekeeping is to have merchandise superintendents
+over groups of these buyers. The buyers then come to the merchandise
+experts for advice, to talk over market conditions, and to figure out
+special promotional work. The merchandise expert has either been a buyer
+or has had advertising experience.
+
+This is a most responsible position. The woman occupying it must know
+merchandise, advertising, and must be able to predict demands for
+certain classes of articles. Sales promotion work is usually a part of
+her job. That means that she plans special events, such as birthday
+sales, founder’s day sales, spring sales, etc. She spends time in the
+markets with the buyers. She must keep in vital touch with public
+sentiments. She is held accountable for the failures of any departments.
+
+Men, too, occupy similar positions. Since women have been in the field
+of buying for years, they are not resented as merchandise experts.
+Salaries paid to them are much larger than in the majority of
+occupations. Their year’s checks would total from $5,000 to $20,000.
+Only women with long experience and remarkably clear insight can make
+outstanding successes in this line. It is a good mark for which to aim.
+
+
+(65.) _Milliners._ The old order changeth! Women used to have their hats
+made from selected shapes and trimmings. Today the made-to-order hat is
+quite a rarity. Since the simple, tailored hats have come into
+existence, millinery has been a simple trade, too. A recent development
+adds a bit of technique. In Paris there is a craze to have the hat
+draped and pinned on the head of the individual who is to wear it. This
+makes decidedly individual styles. American milliners are trying out
+this idea, and, if it works, it will boost the profession. Today
+milliners buy their hats all trimmed and their jobs resolve into selling
+occupations.
+
+
+(66.) _Model._ Mannikin is another name. The model must be a beautiful
+girl, exquisitely proportioned. She wears clothing that prospective
+customers may see just how well it looks. Models are used in many high
+class retail shops. Here the 200 pound customer fancies she will look
+just like the lissom model—and she signs the dotted line and has the
+dress delivered.
+
+Wholesale houses invariably use models for clothing. The girls show
+buyers the styles. They work hard, sometimes changing dresses or coats a
+couple of hundred times a day, when the season is busy. They slip in and
+out of garments with lightning speed. They must walk just so—and answer
+any questions the buyer may care to ask, although there is almost always
+a salesman present.
+
+Models for clothing receive from $25 to $60 a week. The average pay in a
+wholesale dress or coat house is $35 a week. Photographers’ models are
+paid by the sitting. The best studios pay $5 for a street clothing
+picture and $10 for a sitting in lingerie, hose, etc. Some of the
+photographers’ models make very good money.
+
+
+(67.) _Movie Director._ Several women carry flying colors in this new
+and developing work. Usually the woman movie directors have evolved from
+scenario writers, caption writers, and others connected in some way with
+the industry. They must be highly skilled in all the mechanical
+knowledge concerning photography and they must understand film
+presentation of human feelings. Then, they must be able to instill in
+the actresses and actors the spirit of the production. They are paid
+either by the picture or on a salary basis.
+
+It might be well here to say a few words concerning the moving picture
+field, exclusive of acting. Studios employ a staff of scenario readers,
+caption writers, and scenario writers. Still other women are employed in
+the advertising and research departments. The movies have a glorious
+future ahead of them, and any woman who believes herself mentally
+equipped to find her place in this growth will do well to get a position
+in a company where she can learn the most possible about the art of
+moving pictures. The University of Southern California is said to be
+planning a series of courses on the moving picture industry.
+
+
+(68.) _Musician._ This is an all inclusive title: it embraces pianists,
+violinists, harpists, singers, composers, and teachers. To say nothing
+of cellists and other artists who perform on musical instruments. It
+takes in grand opera stars and tin pan alley singers.
+
+Every year hundreds of young people come to large cities to study music.
+Many of them are undoubtedly talented. They do not realize the hazardous
+path between them and fame. It is fraught with many unreasonable
+difficulties. Ability, personality, and good luck all contribute their
+bits. Health is surely not to be overlooked. Training for a musical
+career is very expensive and not at all certain.
+
+Teaching music is another field. It offers more variety now than ever
+before. We have community song leaders who lead the singing of great
+crowds of people. We have coaches for municipal song fests. We have
+choir directors. A splendid technical education is an absolute
+requisite.
+
+The compensation for public performers in music is most uncertain. Their
+publicity expenses are always great, as they must keep their names
+constantly before the public. Jealousy exists among such temperamental
+people. But, with determination, talent, and patience as guardian
+angels, many musicians do arrive at their goals.
+
+
+(69.) _Novelist._ Every woman has at least one story to write, the
+history of her own life. Within the most humble and the quietest person
+exists some interesting story. In the present time, many women are
+writing these and other stories.
+
+It is advisable for a woman to write a novel, provided she has ability
+to write and provided she does not have to depend upon the income of the
+novel for her livelihood. Unless a novel is a very good seller, it does
+not make much money. The average royalty on a book by an unknown or
+little known author is 20 per cent. If a thousand copies are sold, that
+means only $200. Of course, if the book seems adaptable for the movies,
+a nice sum is netted. The movies will buy the rights from anywhere in
+the neighborhood of $1,000 to $10,000 for an unknown author. Some
+publishers have clauses in their contracts which give them a percentage
+of the movie rights of books they get out.
+
+
+(70.) _Numerologist and Astrologist._ These are more or less mystic
+beliefs, although both claim mathematical precision and formulae.
+Numerology is the science of numbers, its adherents say. Every letter in
+one’s name has a numerical value, and combinations of these values have
+supposed meanings. Followers of this belief work out their destinies
+from their names. If the results are not pleasing, one changes one’s
+name to something which will bring happiness and good fortune. Experts
+are needed to work out values and to suggest the best possible
+combinations. A surprising number of women numerologists seem to be kept
+busy by anxious clients. Their charge varies from $5 to $25 a
+consultation. They cite as proofs many famous people who attained their
+prominence only after changing their names.
+
+Astrology, in its popular conception, is the study of the influence on
+human life of atmospheric conditions dealing particularly with the sun,
+the moon, and the stars. Each person has a horoscope which tells him his
+character and will provide advice for his activities. Belief in
+astrology is not new, as ancient nations revered it and practiced its
+commands.
+
+One well known woman astrologist in New York receives $25 for a
+horoscope reading which takes her about a half hour. Her time is so much
+in demand that she has a tremendous waiting list and no appointments can
+be made sooner than thirty days in the future. Of course, her regular
+clients who consult her on business matters daily have access to her
+advice. (See Little Blue Book No. 767.)
+
+
+(71.) _Nurse._ Humanity calls to those who follow this profession
+conscientiously. In nursing, there is more of a future than many people
+consider. A highly skilled nurse is invaluable to a surgeon. In
+hospitals there are many executive positions for intelligent nurses. In
+public health work, hundreds of positions are open, and more will be
+open, to socially minded nurses.
+
+Most hospitals now accept only high school graduates as probate nurses.
+The average course in a hospital is for three years. Some, especially
+University hospitals, have raised the time to four years. Besides
+actually caring for the patients, the student nurses must study a
+prescribed course dealing with the science of nursing.
+
+Graduate nurses who do case work make very good money, the average
+running from $8 to $12 a day, but it must be remembered that they do not
+work continually. Their expenses of living continue, and they may spend
+many idle days. Some nurses secure positions with invalids and stay on
+the same cases for years.
+
+
+(72.) _Occupational Therapist._ This is largely the teaching of arts and
+crafts to injured persons. The World War developed this most valuable
+idea. Keep the injured person occupied! Keep his thoughts on something
+besides his own troubles. So they teach incurables basket weaving, lamp
+making, doll making, etc. It is truly a great help. The patient becomes
+interested and cheerful. He may make his living and thus evade the
+experience of being dependent upon his family, his friends, the state,
+or charity.
+
+A few large hospitals in the country have courses in occupational
+therapy. One engaged in this work can feel she is doing great good in a
+rather cheerless world. It could be depressing, work, too, if the
+therapist failed to realize the larger aspects of the job.
+
+The salary is as good as paid to private nurses. This work extends to
+institutions for the feeble-minded, too. These unfortunate people are
+taught to do some interesting and useful work.
+
+
+(73.) _Pharmacist._ This includes the manufacture of drugs, the filling
+of medical prescriptions, and the teaching of pharmacy. Women who are
+interested in chemistry often enter this field. They are exact and
+efficient. They may go into manufacturing plants in positions of
+supervision, or they may take positions in drug stores. Pharmacists are
+needed in hospitals, too. There is no discrimination against women in
+this work.
+
+Salaries range from $30 to $65 a week for clerks and from $50 to $100
+for executive work in manufacturing plants. There is a great research
+field in pharmacy which invites women to enter.
+
+
+(74.) _Photographer._ Photography in its best expression may be
+considered an art. Light, proportion, and line figure in the fine
+photograph. Commercially, portrait photography is the most paying. Women
+photographers who have specialized in taking interesting and lifelike
+pictures of people have built up great patronages. Some women specialize
+in photographing children. This requires a patience with children to
+whom a large camera is a new and often terrifying mechanism.
+
+Theatric photographing is also a profitable business, as stars must have
+new pictures taken frequently and must hand them out in large numbers to
+their fans.
+
+A newer form of photography for women is taking moving pictures. This
+science has developed remarkably in the last decade; there are thousands
+of facts to know about it. Women have assisted in this field for some
+time, and a few individuals have attained executive jobs. It is a
+perfectly possible profession for women.
+
+
+(75.) _Playwright._ Like writing novels, the fashioning of plays is a
+splendid avocation until one’s reputation is established. The world of
+the theater is ever uncertain, always astonishing in its developments.
+Even the success of a play can be forecast by none. Many, many plays are
+accepted, produced, and then they fail. This means no or small royalty
+for the author.
+
+Women succeed in play-writing just as well as men do. There have been
+many outstanding hits in the theatre world which have been written by
+women.
+
+The writing of vaudeville skits can be a remunerative business, although
+there are pitfalls to be noted. It is better to sell a vaudeville act
+outright for cash than on a royalty basis unless the act happens to be
+very well known and established. The woman ambitious to write vaudeville
+acts should go ahead and advertise in some of the vaudeville magazines.
+A vaudeville act should sell for $100 and up.
+
+
+(76.) _Politician._ Women have always been politicians, in their own
+way, even before they obtained suffrage. Now many women take politics
+seriously, manage campaigns, run for offices themselves, and serve on
+committees.
+
+There is always work to be done in the political parties, and no woman
+of some intelligence and application will find it difficult to get a
+humble entree into the political arena. Her first task will be
+electioneering. Then she may be appointed to some committee. The
+majority of these jobs are not paid.
+
+In political organizations there are paid positions which are not
+political graft jobs. The League of Women Voters employs a force of
+women, although their task is informative rather than propagandic.
+
+
+(77.) _Printer._ Printing is one of the master trades today in this
+world of the written word. There are a considerable number of women who
+are in the printing business for themselves. There are others who work
+at the trade, belong to the union, and do well in their jobs. One woman
+runs the printing shop on a large ship; she prepares the menus, printed
+bulletins, etc., which are issued by this floating city.
+
+Printing is tremendously important to advertising. The printer of
+tomorrow must understand lay-out, typography in its relation to
+business, and must have an esthetic sense. It would seem that women
+would fit into this scheme admirably. Formerly not so much appearance as
+context mattered in an advertisement; today each has equal importance.
+
+Women printers receive the same wages as men printers do. This varies
+somewhat as to locale, but wages are generally good ranging from $5 to
+$10 a day.
+
+
+(78.) _Proofreader._ Publishers, printers, newspapers, and advertising
+departments need proofreaders to see that printed matter is presented
+correctly. Proofreaders compare the printed proofs with original copy
+and make corrections which are needed. Proofreaders must have an
+accurate knowledge of spelling, grammar, and all rhetorical uses.
+
+Proofreading is an excellent way of learning any of the above-mentioned
+businesses. In itself, it is not an occupation with a brilliant future.
+Proofreaders earn from $15 to $40 a week. Sometimes the work is of great
+interest, and again they may be proofreading long columns of figures,
+lists of names, or reports of unoriginal speeches.
+
+
+(79.) _Psychiatrist._ Psychiatry is the study of the nature and remedy
+for mental diseases. Life today is complex and full of nervous and
+emotional strain. The need for mental balance is great. The science of
+the mind and its emotions has developed rapidly in the last twenty
+years.
+
+Psychiatrists may be doctors, nurses, or social workers. They help the
+individual to adjust himself to his environment. Women have entered this
+new calling extensively. There is a psychiatric school at Smith College
+every summer for young women who intend to go into the field of
+psychiatric social work.
+
+One of the interesting developments of this new science is the Child
+Guidance Clinic. Many cities have them; hospitals find them of great
+service. In some cities, the delinquent children are referred from the
+juvenile courts to the guidance clinics. The psychiatrists try to
+discover the causes for the children’s unsocial actions. Often the
+corrective work must be done with the parents. The psychiatrist gets all
+the history possible of the case and evolves from that her conclusions.
+Some of the larger settlement houses have established psychiatric
+clinics, too.
+
+Salaries for trained psychiatrists (not doctors) range from $1,800 to
+$4,500 a year.
+
+
+(80.) _Psycho-Analyst._ The majority of reputable psycho-analysts have
+degrees in medicine. Individuals who have a hard time getting along in
+the world emotionally have been greatly helped by psycho-analysis. Its
+purpose is to overcome complexes, fears, and senses of guilt. Analysis
+means a thorough going over of the mind, its associations and its
+symbols, and from this analysis the individual emerges a much more
+complete person. An analysis takes from two months to a year, depending
+upon the mental and emotional state of the individual and upon the
+technique of the analyst.
+
+There is one woman physician in New York who is an international
+authority on psycho-analysis. She has studied with the leading men in
+the field and she meets with excellent results in her work.
+
+Analysts receive from $5 to $40 an hour for their time.
+
+
+(81.) _Public Health Worker._ A well-informed people is a healthy
+people. The spread of the knowledge of hygiene has lessened the death
+rate remarkably. People must be taught to care for their bodies.
+Governments must know that factories, plants, street cars, theaters, and
+all working and gathering places are clean, well-ventilated, and not
+harmful for the people who attend them. Child labor must be regulated.
+All of this comes under the head of public health work. Almost always
+the work is done by the government, but there are also privately endowed
+institutions to carry on the purposes of better living.
+
+Public health workers do not receive luxurious salaries. The nurses do
+not earn as much as they might in private work. They average from $25 to
+$50 a week.
+
+
+(82.) _Publicity Agent._ Dramas, banks, manufacturing plants, schools,
+cities, stores, and even prominent individuals have publicity agents.
+With some institutions, like the Rockefeller Institute, the publicity
+agents keep the public properly informed of the work they are doing.
+With theaters it is for the express purpose of inciting interest which
+will make people bring their money to the box office.
+
+Publicity agents gather facts, get them into interesting and presentable
+shape, and see that they get into papers and magazines. Journalism is an
+excellent training for this type of work. The publicity agent must know
+what interests people. Publicity is news. It is not paid advertising.
+
+Publicity agents receive from $35 to $500 a week.
+
+
+(83.) _Realtor._ Women are engaged in the real estate business in
+endless capacities. In the Florida boom many women made and lost as much
+as any of the men promoters. Women sell real estate, act as brokers,
+serve as agents, make leases, and handle collections of rents. In New
+York many women rent whole apartment houses and sublet apartments.
+
+In selling a house, a woman has an advantage over a man. She can explain
+to another woman, probably the housewife who will reside in the new
+home, all the advantages of the domestic architecture, the school
+conditions for the children, and other kindred feminine questions.
+
+The income of women realtors varies greatly because much of the work is
+done on a commission basis.
+
+
+(84.) _Religious Worker._ Churches today have efficient, business-like
+organizations and employ trained people to carry on work. Pastors of
+large congregations have secretaries, social workers, and other
+assistants.
+
+In this modern time, too, women are becoming ministers of the gospel in
+some denominations. They are also following evangelical work, carrying
+on revival meetings, leading music for camp meetings. Some of the
+outstanding sky pilots of the day are girls and women.
+
+The tendency today is to make the church a social center, too, where
+young people can enjoy healthy fun. Librarians and recreational
+directors are employed.
+
+Since churches are notably poor financially and since the work is
+supposed to have spiritual recompense, salaries to workers are rather
+small. They would average from $40 to $150 a month.
+
+
+(85.) _Saleswoman._ The more unusual types of sales positions will be
+mentioned here. The position of saleswoman in a store is all right if
+used for experience; buyers are selected from sales persons of
+recognized ability.
+
+Women have made big strides in the business of selling stocks and bonds.
+They not only sell to other women but to men and business organizations.
+Investors are turning to bonds now as never before and cities all over
+the United States are harboring bond houses.
+
+Women make good automobile sales records. They demonstrate the car, talk
+over its mechanical points, and finally hand over the dotted line.
+
+As much selling is done on commission, the salaries paid depend entirely
+upon the individual.
+
+
+(86.) _Secretary._ Big business men must have their secretaries to whom
+they dictate letters sometimes, and whose business it is to be the
+biggest possible help to their employers. Sometimes secretaries know a
+vast amount about a man’s business and personal affairs; therefore she
+must be trustworthy. A secretary evolves usually from a stenographer.
+There are secretarial schools, too, which teach splendid courses. A
+secretary must have a neat appearance, must have good sense, and must be
+able to meet people. She sees almost all of the callers who want to see
+her employer. Often she must judge the importance of their business. She
+is there to save her employer’s time. Secretaries receive from $25 to
+$100 a week.
+
+Another branch of this work is that of the social secretary. She attends
+to the details of the social life of some woman. This woman may just be
+trying to get into so-called society or she may actually need some one
+to take care of her engagement book, send out invitations for affairs,
+and do miscellaneous errands and tasks for her. Social secretaries must
+possess rare tact. They usually are girls or women who have once held
+enviable social positions but who have been forced to earn their own
+livings. Their salaries range from $60 to $175 a month. In some cases
+they live in the home whose social activities they regulate.
+
+
+(87.) _Settlement Worker._ Most cities have community houses where the
+children and adults can gather for recreation and for education. Club
+rooms, swimming pools, libraries, gymnasiums, and classes in cultural
+and occupational subjects are maintained. These are generally for the
+poorer people.
+
+The settlements have resident workers who live in the house. They direct
+the children, teach the sports, and supervise all the activities
+generally. Settlement workers must be sympathetic, sane-minded, and
+cheerful. They must be able to see above the horizon to a day when all
+peoples will be wise and clean! For the teaching of personal hygiene is
+one of the great tasks of the settlement worker. Resident members of a
+settlement house receive from $80 to $150 a month.
+
+
+(88.) _Silversmith._ Individuality in jewelry is considered highly
+desirable. Today hand-made jewelry is at a premium. Artistically
+inclined young women have taken up the study of delicate metal work and
+they turn out beautiful pieces of work. Odd pins, wondrous rings, daring
+earrings, gorgeous bracelets emerge from their work tables.
+
+Jewelry designing is also a good profession. Every year hundreds of
+novelties are brought out, and these have been conceived by some
+designer. Women find interest and good pay in this branch of the art
+known as that of the silversmith.
+
+
+(89.) _Social Service Worker._ All work for organized charities comes
+under this head. So do other occupations already described, such as
+settlement work, public health work, certain phases of psychiatry, etc.
+Charitable organizations employ numbers of case workers who investigate
+home and working conditions of people who come to them for help. Case
+histories are taken, giving the parentage of the people in question, and
+quite a cross-section of their own histories. Their health, their
+working conditions, their living conditions, and all of their
+environment are surveyed. The present idea of charitable work is not to
+give people help except in dire necessity, but to assist them to stand
+on their own feet. Education is the greatest work for the poor and the
+unfortunate.
+
+Case workers are paid from $60 to $150 a month.
+
+
+(90.) _Statistician._ It is good business to keep accurate records. The
+future can only be interpreted in the light of the past, and figures,
+not impressions or personal convictions, tell the truth. How many pairs
+of gloves, for example, did a department sell? A guess is not at all
+valuable.
+
+In organizations of size, statisticians are employed. They compile
+figures and often help in the conclusions drawn from the figures. In
+science, too, statisticians are valuable. Statistics will be the basis
+of historical content and interpretation in the future.
+
+Statisticians should be well trained in mathematics and in economics.
+Women are equally as successful as men in this field. The pay for
+statistical work varies from $18 to $75 a week.
+
+
+(91.) _Stenographer._ Many girls study stenography as a foundation for a
+business career. Provided a girl does not know what type of work she
+wishes to do, this is commendable. If she knows what interests her most
+and if she feels she has the ability to do it, it is better for her to
+get actual experience in the work she is going to do. If shorthand and
+typing will not be necessary for that work, it seems a waste of time and
+effort to learn these mechanics which will not prove of practical value.
+
+One excellent feature about stenography is that a woman rarely has a
+very difficult time getting a position doing that work. In the rarer and
+more interesting positions, jobs are fewer and a wait is often required
+before one lands just the right thing.
+
+Two high type varieties of stenography are court reporting and public
+work. The girl who is a public stenographer is in business for herself.
+She can work up a nice future, hiring others to do work which she cannot
+handle. Court reporting requires great speed, accuracy, and a knowledge
+of legal terminology.
+
+Stenographers average from $12 to $100 a week; the latter pertains to
+court reporters and other experts.
+
+
+(92.) _Stylist._ Stylists see all the new fashions in apparel and
+forecast for the benefit of buyers and shop owners just what will be new
+and popular. They receive salaries from stores and shops. It is their
+work to see what smart people are wearing, to know what the most
+distinctive shops are offering, and to tell what is in good taste and
+what is salable. The more important stylists go abroad for the Paris
+openings. They assist buyers by advising them of style desirability.
+Stylists often assemble correct accessories for certain dresses or
+coats. They often attend to the style shows which the majority of stores
+give every season.
+
+Stylists must know merchandise. They must recognize what fashions will
+meet with popular approval, and they must always be very well-dressed
+themselves.
+
+Stylists receive from $25 to $150 a week.
+
+
+(93.) _Teacher._ The day is now gone when any girl who wanted to earn
+her own living had to be a school ma’am. Teaching should be a chosen
+calling, nothing else. Only when a woman feels a great urge to teach
+should she enter this profession. Too many temperamentally unfit women
+have assumed the truly sacred task of teaching children and youths.
+Preparation for teaching is vastly better in the present colleges and
+universities which have whole staffs of scholars in educational
+departments.
+
+Another form of teaching is tutoring. This can be done in part time.
+Young people need to have special lessons in subjects which are
+difficult for them, and also for college entrance examinations. Tutors
+are paid from 50c to $4 an hour.
+
+Not as many families as formerly have governesses nowadays. A governess
+does not occupy a very exalted position; she is likely to be treated as
+a high class servant. Still, for families which travel, governesses are
+necessary. Girls who take these positions have a chance to see some of
+the large and inviting world. Governesses receive from $60 to $150 a
+month, plus, of course, their rooms and food.
+
+Teachers in grade schools receive from $75 to $250 a month. High school
+teachers receive slightly more. College teachers are variously paid,
+ranging from $1,200 to $5,000 a year.
+
+Teachers in private schools come into more social contact with the
+students and lead a more personal type of school life.
+
+
+(94.) _Tea Room Manager._ Americans have adopted the idea of informal
+dining, and our highways and byways are dotted with interesting little
+tea rooms. Stores maintain them and they prove popular with customers.
+The old idea was that anyone could manage a tea room. This has proved
+erroneous. Like everything else, this vocation requires training. New
+York and other large cities have schools which teach the financial,
+dietetic, and atmosphere principles which govern the successful tea
+room. Girls who are going to open tea shops for themselves enter. So do
+girls who want to obtain positions running tea shops for others. Part of
+the course is laboratory work, or actual experience in tea rooms. The
+other part consists of lectures, discussions, and directed reading in
+kindred subjects.
+
+Girls and women who are tea room managers receive from $25 to $75 a week
+salary.
+
+
+(95.) _Title Examiner._ In every real estate deal, title must be given
+to the property transacted. This usually consists of an abstract,
+brought to date, and a deed. The abstract, of course, must tell the
+entire history of the property and show tax payments. All of this
+requires considerable investigation and work. It is a combined
+specialization of real estate and legal knowledge. A clever girl could
+work herself up to this position of title examiner by learning all the
+salient facts in the matter. Title examiners for realty companies are
+quite well paid, averaging from $25 to $65 a week.
+
+
+(96.) _Translator._ Rapid communication and easy transportation have
+made the whole world kin. Today there is a vast net of business
+transactions between the countries of the world. That necessitates a
+facility with different languages. A translator can have a position as a
+stenographer or a more important position in which she figures in the
+policy of her company. Her knowledge of a certain foreign language will
+make her valuable. Most banks employ translators. Commercial translators
+find in their pay envelopes from $25 to $50 a week.
+
+
+(97.) _Undertaker._ The more dignified term is mortician. Women have
+received certificates as embalmers and almost every city has at least
+one undertaking establishment owned by a woman. It is a little
+impossible to conceive of the young girl choosing this depressing
+vocation; still, the work is certainly one in which kindness and
+sympathy can be used.
+
+
+(98.) _Vocational Guide._ Here is a truly twentieth century profession!
+The realization that every person should be equipped to earn his own
+living makes the matter of choosing a vocation an important step. Many
+people do work which they cannot enjoy; consequently, they do not
+succeed as well as they might if they were in some more congenial type
+of employment.
+
+A vocational director helps people to choose occupations for which they
+are best fitted. Some colleges have these directors who talk over the
+various professional possibilities with the students and help them to
+select courses of study which will contribute the most to the end in
+view. This important work will be more developed in the future, and
+settlement houses will doubtlessly have vocational directors, too.
+
+These professional women receive from $2,400 to $5,000 a year.
+
+
+(99.) _Waitress._ Here is another trade which almost always offers
+openings to relatively untrained workers. It is perfectly all right for
+girls and women to do this work, and as honest labor it commands dignity
+and respect, but it is not to be considered as a permanent occupation.
+It might prove extremely valuable experience for someone who planned to
+open a tea room. Waitresses in high class cafes make pretty good money
+in tips. They are paid very low salaries. Of course, they receive one or
+two meals a day depending upon the length of time they work. $12 to $50
+a week is the average earning of a waitress.
+
+
+(100.) _X-ray-Operator._ The use of the X-ray for examination of the
+bone and tissue structures of teeth and other parts of the body has
+brought a new profession to women, that of operating the machine and
+developing the plates.
+
+The machine is not tremendously difficult to operate, but it requires
+great accuracy and dependability. It is rather interesting work for a
+girl. She has the pleasing environment of a doctor’s office or of a
+laboratory or clinic. Her work is with human beings and she is assisting
+to better them physically.
+
+X-ray operators receive from $20 to $50 a week, depending upon their
+skill and experience.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                               CONCLUSION
+
+
+In explanation, there have been considered here one hundred practical
+professions for women, and salaries have been given. As economic
+conditions in different sections of the country vary enormously, these
+figures must be considered only as indicative.
+
+In studying women in the professional fields of the world today, several
+inevitable and engrossing conclusions emerge from the mass of facts.
+First, that woman has gained tremendous independence in the business
+world. There is scarcely any profession which she cannot enter, if she
+feels a calling to it. The trail has been blazed. With this vast new
+panorama, girls should not choose professions just because they are
+different. The old “know thyself” still holds good, and each girl and
+woman should study her own personality and her own capability. Advice
+from successful business women is valuable; get several points of view,
+if you are considering adopting a profession. Consider, too, the
+locality in which you will live when you practice your profession. Some
+of the newer vocations are possible only in large cities.
+
+The outstanding thing which can be said to all girls and women is, “Get
+an education—receive a training for your job.” If a girl has her choice
+of going to school or going to work, keep on in school, electing studies
+which will help you in your business work. If you find yourself facing
+the necessity of earning a living, and you have only ordinary training,
+get a job and go to night school or take correspondence courses. Many
+universities now offer such courses. To succeed, you just need to know a
+little more than the other fellow. Knowledge, and the ability to apply
+it, is power in the business world.
+
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+
+                          Transcriber’s Notes
+
+ ● Note: Printer’s errors and apparent misspellings have been changed
+     and are noted below
+ ● Note: Hyphenation and capitalization have been standardized in cases
+     noted below, where there is a predominant form in the text
+ ● Pg. 12: Fixed capitalization: ‘... and turkish baths’ to ‘Turkish’
+ ● Pg. 16: Corrected typo: ‘The duties of these employes’ to ‘employees’
+ ● Pg. 23: Corrected typo: ‘... sytles which lend themselves’ to
+     ‘styles’
+ ● Pg. 30: Added missing apostrophe: ‘Clerks in florists shops are’ to
+     ‘florists’ shops’
+ ● Pg. 35: Removed hyphen: ‘... house-mothers are usually’ to ‘house
+     mothers’—Without hyphen earlier
+ ● Pg. 35: Corrected typo: ‘... selection of furniture, curtain’ to
+     ‘curtains’
+ ● Pg. 53: Corrected typo: ‘... like the Rockefellow Institute’ to
+     ‘Rockefeller’
+ ● Pg. 60: Corrected typo: ‘... formerly have governesses nowdays’ to
+     ‘nowadays’
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+    <td class='c001'>Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius</td>
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+  <h1 class='c003'>100 Professions for <br> Women</h1>
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+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c004'>
+    <div>Betty Van Deventer</div>
+  </div>
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+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c005'>
+    <div>HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS</div>
+    <div>GIRARD, KANSAS</div>
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+    <div>PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
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+    <div><span class='xxlarge'>100 PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch_1' class='c007'><span class='xlarge'>ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE FOR WOMEN</span></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c008'>Fifteen years ago few women entered business
+or professional lives from choice. The
+woman who had no husband, father, or brother
+to support her was considered unfortunate.
+Woman’s delicate constitution was not considered
+consonant with the harsh, hurrying world
+of business.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>How times have changed! And how rapidly!
+Pride in economic independence is expressed
+ubiquitously today by women who earn their
+own living. There are fewer and fewer examples
+of the pitiful “poor relation” who must
+find her food and lodging in the home of some
+more affluent relative.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Daughters of wealthy parents today plan
+careers. Although they will never have to earn
+their actual livings, they want the thrill of
+business, and the knowledge that they possess
+the ability to make their own ways in the
+world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The bachelor girl takes the place of the simpering
+old maid. In place of a parrot, knitting,
+and a porch rocking chair, the modern unmarried
+woman has the interest of the whole world
+through her business connections.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If the married woman of today does not relish
+housework, she is at liberty to have a
+career in the business world. The percentage
+of married women who are working grows surprisingly
+every year, especially in the larger
+cities where more opportunities are found. The
+war, of course, gave a great impetus to this
+movement. Many women who had done war-time
+work found they could not be happy when
+they returned to the humdrum roles of housekeepers.
+Something was lacking—an excitement,
+an interest in big accomplishment rather
+than merely seeing that the breakfast dishes
+got washed. Just so with the girls who work
+before they are married. They may decide to
+settle down to being old-fashioned wives, wives
+who cook, mend, sweep, and wash for friend
+husband. Soon the novelty palls, and, in the
+great majority of cases, these young women
+return to their business lives.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The greatest urge which women feel to earn
+their own livings is the glorious feeling of independence!
+No more asking father for money,
+no more explanations to friend husband about
+needing a new hat! Many wives have to plead
+for spending money, have to accept it as a gift.
+Is it to be wondered that they prefer their own
+pay envelopes?</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Economic independence for women is here
+to stay! Having tasted this divine nectar of
+freedom, women will not give it up. Nor would
+the average man have them. Business women
+of intelligence are very interesting. They have
+more in common with their men friends than
+the sheltered, stay-at-home girl. Men find real
+companionship with the well-informed woman.
+She need not lose her feminine charm and delicacy
+just because she happens to work in an
+office. For a long time there will probably be
+a sex jealousy between men and women in
+business. The homo sapiens just can’t get over—at
+least not very quickly—his idea that he
+stands supreme in the realms of business. It
+is up to the woman of tomorrow to show that
+she can hold the place she has won in the
+world of business affairs.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch_2' class='c007'><span class='xlarge'>NEW FIELDS OPEN TO WOMEN</span></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c008'>The pre-war woman who faced the problem
+of earning a living had few doors open to her
+knocking. She might be a teacher or a stenographer.
+In this post-war era practically no line
+of endeavor has not been trespassed upon by
+woman. The sacred professions of law, medicine,
+and engineering have been invaded until
+woman’s place in these realms ceases to be
+criticized.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ability is the first reason for the success of
+women in industry. The feminine point of
+view has proved its worth in practically every
+form of marketing. As women do the great
+majority of the retail buying in the United
+States, women have been able to show the way
+to sell most effectively.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It was predicted that women would not be
+able to stand the physical strain of the work-a-day
+world. While they do not possess the
+endurance which men have, they have proved
+constitutionally equal to their tasks. After all,
+housework is not a light physical labor and
+women have managed to do this for a long,
+long time. Fatigue is accentuated with boredom.
+Business offers more variety than sweeping
+and dusting.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another factor which must not be overlooked
+in this analysis of the woman in business is
+the economic. Women will work for less
+money than men will. Consequently, women
+have been employed many times to take the
+place of men. This has made some sex antagonism.
+As women become more experienced,
+they demand more money, although the rate of
+compensation for the same work is less for
+women. This should and will be adjusted in
+time.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch_3' class='c007'><span class='xlarge'>100 PAYING PROFESSIONS</span></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c008'>Every girl should be equipped to earn a good
+living. Parents of today talk about fitting a
+girl for a business life just as much as a boy.
+Of course, the better trained person, the better
+educated man or woman makes a greater success
+in life. Girls should find where their interests,
+propensities, and abilities lie, and
+should begin early in life to develop these.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The following pages give descriptions and
+enlightenment on a hundred professions in
+which women engage today. As this is an
+age of specialization, the peak of each profession
+will be emphasized. Many of the seemingly
+routine types of work can be made most
+interesting and valuable by specialization. The
+girl or woman starting a business career will
+do well to consider the many occupations open
+to her, and to choose with greatest wisdom.
+In business one may as well reach the top—it
+will prove not only more remunerative, but
+infinitely more interesting.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The woman who has capital will be wise to
+launch a business for herself if she is well-equipped
+to handle this business. This is an
+excellent time for women to go into business
+for themselves. Here they can compete on
+equal footing with men. Profits take no consideration
+of sex. If the woman with capital is
+trained, she will be most injudicious if she
+does not acquire some experience in the same
+type of business she intends to operate. For
+example, suppose a woman wishes to start a
+dress shop. It will be well worth her while
+to work in a department store, a wholesale
+house, and a specialty shop before she starts
+out on her own. She must become educated
+in her business. She will be ahead even if
+she spends several years acquainting herself
+with all possible aspects of the dress business.
+Countless costly mistakes will be avoided.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the following resumés, the more unusual
+and the newer professions have been accentuated
+as they will prove of greatest interest
+to the girl or woman personally curious about
+the possibilities which the modern business
+world offers.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(1.) <i>Accountant.</i></span> To become a private or
+public accountant, a woman must have considerable
+business experience and must know
+the practices of bookkeeping thoroughly. An
+accountant records, analyzes, and interprets
+the businesses of private individuals or of corporations.
+Auditing, which checks up the
+records of a business, is a form of accounting.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The height of the profession is to become a
+Certified Public Accountant. One must pass
+rigid examinations to earn this title. Some
+women are registered accountants and practice
+successfully.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries for accountants are above the average,
+ranging from $35 a week to $100. Certified
+Public Accountants are in business for themselves,
+of course, and when they are successful
+they earn very substantial incomes.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(2.) <i>Actress.</i></span> The stage today wants not
+only beautiful but accomplished girls. The
+young woman who cannot offer dramatic ability
+and training, or dancing, singing, or some
+other definite thing, will have a difficult time
+making her way behind the footlights.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Vaudeville, the legitimate stage, and the
+movies all offer chances for fame and fortune.
+The chorus girl makes from $35 to $75 a week.
+The extra in the movie game must provide her
+own wardrobe. Work as an extra is uncertain
+and pays from $8 to $15 a day.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stars in any of the theatrical fields earn
+very high salaries, but only while the shows
+are playing. They live expensive lives as they
+can be assured of no permanency of location.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(3.) <i>Adjustor.</i></span> Large corporations dealing
+with the public often employ women to adjust
+difficulties which naturally arise in transactions.
+Department stores, for example, have
+adjustors to handle merchandise and service
+complaints from customers.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Adjustors must have good general educations,
+patience, and must make a good appearance.
+The salaries paid to them range from
+$25 to $50 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(4.) <i>Advertising Women.</i></span> Advertising is a
+field which offers limitless possibilities to
+women. Prejudice against them in this work
+is little, and their feminine point of view is
+considered most desirable.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Copywriters, who write the text of advertisements,
+receive from $25 to $100 a week in
+salary. Account experts in advertising agencies
+receive as much as $200 a week. Women
+today occupy many executive positions which
+pay excellent salaries.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Manufacturing plants, wholesalers, public
+utility organizations, mills, banks, department
+stores, and many other business enterprises
+employ women for advertising.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(5.) <i>Americanization Work.</i></span> The war
+brought to a focus the need for teaching our
+great foreign population the meaning of the
+American government and the traditions of
+this country. Social workers were employed
+for this purpose. Schools now train students
+to teach Americanization. The foreign-born
+man or woman is taught enough so that he or
+she can intelligently pass the examinations for
+citizenship. Classes in English are held. Thus
+the parents do not get out of sympathy with
+their children who learn Americanisms in
+school.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>College educations are usually required for
+Americanization workers. Pay probably averages
+from $1,800 to $2,400 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(6.) <i>Antique Dealer.</i></span> The desire for antiques
+has spread over the country. Furniture,
+glass, and metal objects are at a premium provided
+they can be declared antique.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stores selling furniture and interior decorators
+employ women who know antiques. Many
+books have been written upon the subject.
+It is an interesting new field, especially adapted
+to women as they have an interest in home
+decorations.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(7.) <i>Archeologist.</i></span> Archeology is the interpretation
+of past ages in the light of relics
+which are found of their civilizations. Exploration
+to find the relics must be made. Then
+examination and conclusions concerning the
+relics are made. Eventually historical data
+is established and written.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women are successful in archeology. They
+are members of expeditions as well as students
+in the field. A great background of history
+and science is required to be an archeologist.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(8.) <i>Architect.</i></span> The master builders of today
+are not all men. Many women have entered
+the field of architecture and have made
+remarkable progress. Especially in the planning
+of homes do women excel. Large firms
+employ women to go over plans to see that the
+kitchen arrangements for a house or an apartment
+building are proper, to consider proportions
+of rooms for decorating purposes, and to
+specialize on clothes and linen closet plans.
+Women have also successfully designed public
+buildings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Of course, a college education is necessary
+for the woman architect. She will earn a good
+living if she is skillful.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(9.) <i>Artist.</i></span> The emancipated woman enters
+the field of creative art on an equal footing
+with men. Writers, etchers, painters,
+sculptors, and musicians number many women
+among their famous today.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>As a profession, commercial art offers interesting
+occupation to women. Art applied to
+business, and particularly to advertising illustration
+may be studied in almost every city.
+Women who draw figures are called fashion
+artists. Others do lettering, decorative borders,
+etc.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Artists on salary receive from $15 to $100 a
+week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(10.) <i>Athletic Coach.</i></span> Girls’ schools and
+colleges now stress intra-mural athletics and
+competent coaches are engaged. Some large
+business corporations also employ athletic
+coaches. Usually the coach is athletic herself
+and has had training in coaching. Wellesley
+offers an excellent course for coaches. Salaries
+range from $1,500 to $2,800 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Swimming coaches in schools, clubs, and at
+beaches can earn good livings teaching children
+and adults how to swim. The Red Cross employs
+lifesaving teachers.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(11.) <i>Aviatrix.</i></span> Not to be outdone by man
+on land or sea—or in the air—milady has put
+on goggles and climbed into the pilot’s seat of
+an airplane. Flying schools report that women
+make adept pupils. At first women were only
+stunt and feature flyers. Some went in for
+parachute jumping. Today women are entering
+the field of transportation aviation. The
+industry is so new that no standards of compensation
+have been set.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(12.) <i>Banker.</i></span> Banks have employed women
+in clerical positions for a long, long time. It
+is a fairly recent development to give women
+executive positions in banks. Today many
+business women are large customers of banks.
+They can now consult with women executives
+in banks. These women are called investment
+advisers. Other positions in banks filled by
+women are: teller, accountant, secretary, vice-president,
+treasurer and even president.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(13.) <i>Beauty Expert.</i></span> This includes barbers,
+manicurists, masseuses, marcellers, etc.
+The woman who can give fashionable bobs is
+in great demand. So is the expert marceller.
+Masseuses are employed by clubs, hotels, and
+Turkish<a id='tn003'></a> baths. Reliable beauty culture schools
+give courses of six weeks to three months duration.
+The beauty parlor operator will earn
+from $20 to $50 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(14.) <i>Biologist.</i></span> Besides teaching, women
+biologists find employment in federal, state, or
+community laboratories analyzing foods, studying
+water impurities, and even pathological
+plant life. The Department of Agriculture employs
+a number of women biologists in their
+experimental laboratories. The pay is rather
+small, averaging from $1,200 to $2,000 a year.
+Great study is necessary for biologists, usually
+advanced university degrees.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(15.) <i>Bookkeeper.</i></span> This seems to be one of
+the less attractive professions for women. As
+it is almost mechanical, the woman with original
+thoughts will not wish to remain in this
+type of work indefinitely. It does offer good
+business training for the girl fresh from high
+school or business college. It is a trade which
+is an asset, too, as a woman can almost always
+find a job if she is a bookkeeper. Salaries
+vary from $12 a week to $40.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(16.) <i>Botanist.</i></span> Research work in botany
+offers attractive possibilities to trained women.
+Botany as applied to agriculture is the chief
+present commercial use. Development of new
+and better species of producing plants are
+studied. Botany deals with all plant life.
+Botany is taught in many grade schools and in
+practically all high schools and colleges. Women
+fill these teaching positions very well.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(17.) <i>Broker.</i></span> Brokers are mediums of
+communication between buyers and sellers.
+Women serve as brokers in real estate transactions,
+in stock and bond deals, etc. One
+woman has made a reputation as a produce
+broker in New York. She buys farm produce,
+chickens, eggs, etc., from produce houses
+throughout the country and sells these to commission
+merchants in New York.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women brokers are almost always in business
+for themselves, although they may be employed
+in brokerage offices. They have undoubtedly
+had years of business experience before
+they have entered this fascinating but
+risky form of business.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(18.) <i>Buyer.</i></span> Buying for retail businesses
+is a great and extensive venture. Buyers occupy
+important positions in all department
+stores. They usually have risen from the ranks
+of salesgirls, although the modern tendency is
+to train college graduates for buying positions.
+A buyer must be shrewd as well as versed in
+the articles she is choosing. Ready-to-wear buyers
+are perhaps the most important in the store
+world. They command large salaries, and must,
+in turn, make sizable profits for their employers.
+In department stores the pay to buyers
+runs from $40 a week to $15,000 to $20,000 a
+year for the executive buyers.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(19.) <i>Budget Adviser.</i></span> The modern housewife
+runs her home on a budget. She keeps
+track of what she has spent, and she makes
+systematic plans for what she will spend.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Banks, trust companies, etc., employ women
+to give advice on budgets. Stores also have
+budget advisers. These experts figure out what
+percentage of incomes should be spent for rent,
+for food, for entertainment, for charity, for education,
+etc. They advise the public. They are
+paid not by the public but by companies which
+offer their services.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(20.) <i>Camp Counselor.</i></span> Thousands of camps
+for girls are maintained every summer all over
+the country. The capable woman with some
+income who wishes to work for part of a year
+will do well to look into the positions of camp
+counselors. These adults direct the girls in
+athletics, in school work (where courses are
+being made up), and in social activities. Camp
+counselors should know out-of-door life and
+should like to be with girls.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(21.) <i>Cashier.</i></span> A cashier is vested with
+much responsibility, although she is generally
+heavily insured, and she receives only fair pay.
+Her work is almost automatic, dealing with
+the making of change and the balancing of
+cash. Work as a cashier does not hold out a
+great future for a girl. Pay ranges from $12
+a week to $25.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(22.) <i>Cataloguer.</i></span> Private and public libraries
+employ specialists to do their cataloguing.
+Collectors of any rare objects of art
+or science have these treasures catalogued
+when their number has reached a sufficient
+volume.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Studious, earnest girls can do this work and
+it often proves interesting to list the collection
+of years’ labor. Pay is small, averaging not
+more than $25 a week at the most.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(23.) <i>Caterer.</i></span> The caterer prepares the
+food for large banquets, for parties, or merely
+for home entertainment. She must be an expert
+in the culinary line.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This is a good business for the housewife to
+enter, provided she is untrained in another
+field. She solicits the lodges, clubs, churches,
+and homes for patrons. She suggests to them
+appetizing refreshments, and she then has
+these foods prepared in her place of business,
+and she must deliver them in good condition.
+The caterer also sends experienced people to
+serve the food. Dishes, linens, and silver may
+be rented from the caterer.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(24.) <i>Chauffeur.</i></span> During the war, girls
+demonstrated that they could drive ambulances,
+and many of these weren’t light cars.
+In Philadelphia recently a taxicab company
+started with only girls for their chauffeurs.
+The girls are clad in natty, well-tailored uniforms,
+and they give efficient, courteous service
+to their customers. They report that they
+are not molested by flirtatious men. These
+girls have gone through a course of automobile
+mechanics.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(25.) <i>Chemist.</i></span> There are many openings
+today for women chemists. They may teach,
+do research work, or enter the wide field of
+applied chemistry. Practically all high schools
+and colleges employ chemistry teachers. The
+government has many openings for chemists in
+the following departments: the Bureau of
+Standards, the Bureau of Engraving, the United
+States Public Health Service, and the Bureau
+of Chemistry. State and municipal governments
+also have need of chemists.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Industry utilizes the science of chemistry
+extensively. Experiments for future developments
+as well as tests of present productions
+are made. The woman chemist can do as well
+as the man, provided she has good training.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Chemistry has a great future in industry.
+It serves not only the purpose of testing products
+but of developing great, new accomplishments.
+A chemist receives a fair salary, but
+will never get rich quickly from this profession.
+Women who are chemical laboratory
+workers receive from $20 to $65 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(26.) <i>Companion.</i></span> Here is a genteel, pleasant
+profession for the woman who fears to
+meet the bustling, strenuous business world.
+Many wealthy women and many invalids employ
+companions. The duties of these employees<a id='tn005'></a>
+are centered in keeping their employers
+comfortable and interested. Today the demand
+is for women of culture as companions. Take
+invalids, for example; they will want some
+companionship as well as some care.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women of means sometimes employ traveling
+companions. Their duties consist of taking
+care of reservations, accompanying their employers
+on boats, trains, and other excursions.
+They are expected to make themselves generally
+agreeable as well as useful. One duty of
+the companion is to read aloud. She must do
+this with intelligence and interest.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All of the expenses of the companion are
+paid. She can have little separate life of her
+own. She will receive from $50 to $150 a
+month.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(27.) <i>Comparative Shopper.</i></span> The majority
+of large stores in this country maintain shopping
+departments, or, as they are often called,
+comparative values departments. It is the
+duty of these departments to see that no other
+stores in the same locality undersell their
+store. For example, they compare the merchandise
+in the various departments with the
+same merchandise in other stores and report
+the differences in price.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>For this type of work, stores like to employ
+women for part time, although full time comparative
+shopping jobs are given. The shopper
+must not become known in other stores. This
+is a good occupation for married women who
+know the values of merchandise and who wish
+to devote part of their time to earning money.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>For full time work comparative shopping
+pays about $25 a week in large stores. Part
+time workers are paid from 50 cents to $1 an
+hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(28.) <i>Comptometer Operators.</i></span> In big businesses
+much of the clerical work is done on
+adding and other calculating machines. Today
+business schools offer courses to train
+girls to run these machines with speed and
+efficiency. These girls are called comptometer
+operators. Their work is purely mechanical,
+and practice makes them improve in speed. If
+a girl wants this type of work, she is paid
+fairly well. Novices usually start at $15 or
+$20 a week. The most expert and swift comptometer
+operators will not make over $50 a
+week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(29.) <i>Cook.</i></span> Girls who love the mystery
+and the excitement of mixing flour, sugar, and
+eggs together must not turn up their noses at
+the idea of cooking as a profession. Of course,
+it is not meant that these girls will go in
+private homes as servants. Today a cook in a
+great hotel, club, or restaurant is an honored
+person and must be an educated person. He or
+she must know values of foodstuffs, the chemistry
+of cooking, and the likes and dislikes of
+the great and petulant public. The histories of
+foods of foreign countries must also be familiar
+to them.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Chefs, or cooks, in hotels and clubs receive
+very good salaries. The most famous of them
+are said to earn $10,000 a year. That is unusual,
+of course. The average good cook in a
+public eating place receives from $40 to $100 a
+week. They have their assistants to do the
+menial work, and only the general planning
+and supervising is left for them.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(30.) <i>Copyist.</i></span> This work is semi-artistic.
+Today manufacturers of style merchandise, including
+clothing and accessories, are constantly
+on the lookout for something new. They buy
+models from Paris and other fashion centers
+and want them copied in perhaps less expensive
+materials. Copyists not only reproduce
+models patterned after originals, but they copy
+styles of other concerns, of retail stores, of
+any new style source which they can find.
+They must be able to recognize new styles and
+to sketch them not artistically, but understandably.
+Salaries paid vary from $15 a week to
+$35. Of course, New York, Chicago and other
+large cities are the only localities for copyists.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(31.) <i>Correspondent.</i></span> This does not refer
+to legal situations. Correspondents handle the
+letters of organizations. Many times they have
+charge of form letters which are used for usual
+queries. The heads of correspondent departments
+are usually responsible women who must
+meet situations with common sense. Correspondents
+also write letters for companies.
+Therefore, they must know the English language
+and its use in business letters. Correspondents
+in smaller concerns write their own
+letters, therefore a knowledge of typewriting
+is required. In larger concerns they dictate
+either to stenographers or dictaphones.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(32.) <i>Credit Women.</i></span> Here is an interesting
+occupation for the keen, alert woman. Today
+much business is done on credit. Every
+organization which sells on time as well as
+every organization which maintains thirty day
+credit must have people to pass on the desirability
+of applicants. Past credit records must
+be investigated. Almost all cities of any size
+have credit rating companies. Thus professional
+deadbeats cannot keep up their game as
+their reputations are recorded.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is not uncommon for a store to have a
+woman as credit manager. Her job is important
+and well paid. The girl who would enjoy
+such a type of work should get a job in a
+credit office of a store or in a credit bureau.
+She will learn the business from the ground
+up—and it is a calling which has a future.
+Salaries paid to credit managers range from
+$1,800 a year to $6,000. Women seem to be
+particularly successful in this certain profession
+and there seems to be little prejudice
+against them as credit executives.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(33.) <i>Critic.</i></span> Critics are supposedly students
+who are educated in literature, in painting,
+in music, or in any other art, and can
+crystallize their impressions and beliefs into
+convincing form for the public.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Newspapers have dramatic, music, and art
+critics. The movie critic, too, is not to be
+overlooked as she is often a woman. Women
+make good critics—as any husband will testify.
+Seriously speaking, they have the analytic faculty
+and it is being recognized by newspapers
+and magazines who need this writing.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When critics get reputations, they often add
+lecturing to their means of earning money.
+Lecture bureaus furnish speakers for hundreds
+of clubs and schools all over the country.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One cannot get to be a critic in a day. One
+must first become an expert in judging some
+particular form of art and must acquire a
+reputation not only for sagacity but for clarity
+in expressing points of view. The financial
+standings of critics vary greatly. Those with
+commanding names draw the large salaries
+while the minor ones are paid only fairly well.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(34.) <i>Demonstrator.</i></span> Many new devices
+have been introduced into American homes by
+demonstrators. Consider vacuum cleaners, for
+example. Women often do this demonstrating.
+Stores, too, have demonstrators for beauty culture
+articles such as creams, powders, etc.
+Electrical refrigeration companies, gas and
+electric stove companies, and many other organizations
+of similar type use women demonstrators.
+To be a demonstrator a woman
+must have a clean appearance. She must be
+able to answer questions sensibly and convincingly.
+Demonstration gives women a
+chance to travel, an aspect which appeals to
+the more adventurous younger generation.
+Chances for futures in this work are not as
+good as in many other lines, but the work
+itself is interesting. Salaries range from $18 a
+week to $35.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(35.) <i>Dentist.</i></span> Dentistry has been attracting
+women for quite a number of years. It is
+a technical profession in which women have
+made a good name for their sex. Women dentists
+seem to be particularly successful with
+children patients; perhaps they have a better
+understanding of the emotions of children
+which dental work surely calls forth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The value of teaching children how to care
+for their teeth has been realized and women
+dentists are employed to teach dental hygiene
+in schools, settlement houses, etc.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Many institutions have resident dentists who
+care for the teeth of their employees. Such institutions
+include stores, factories, large insurance
+houses, banks, etc. Women fill these institutional
+jobs most satisfactorily. Salaries
+paid to resident dentists vary from $1,800 to
+$3,600 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(36.) <i>Designer.</i></span> Designing is one of the
+most fascinating and successful fields for
+women to enter, provided they have the talent
+and the training. Almost every article manufactured
+is first designed—which includes the
+conceiving of the object and its practical planning.
+Women designers enter every field—including
+the designing of furniture, lighting fixtures,
+fabrics, apparel, and costumes.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The fabric designer has a fascinating work.
+She deals with colors, with designs, and with
+all the practical sides of the manufacture of
+a printed or blocked material. Cretonne designing
+is a gigantic business in itself. Think
+of the hundreds of different patterns turned
+out every year. These must all be designed
+first. Art schools specialize in fabric designing
+courses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Costume designing is an alluring occupation.
+Almost every New York dramatic production
+has its costume designer. Of course, any historical
+presentation must be correctly as well
+as beautifully costumed. Revues and musical
+comedies make a great thing of gorgeous, bizarre,
+and exquisite costuming. Again, some
+expert designer has worked out the costumes.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The greatest commercial use of designing
+is in the manufacture of wearing apparel—dresses,
+coats, hats, scarfs, lingerie, etc. Every
+season the designers must anticipate the popular
+trends of styles and make garments which
+will meet the demands of the public. Paris
+is followed closely. The designer must also be
+a business woman as she can suggest only
+styles<a id='tn001'></a> which lend themselves to sensible manufacturing.
+When the expense of a garment does
+not matter, she is not so limited. When, however,
+she is designing a dress to sell at a certain
+price, she must take into account the
+amount of material required, the workmanship,
+the trimmings, etc.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The most prominent designers spend much
+time abroad, always on the lookout for new and
+feasible ideas. Their expenses, of course, are
+paid. Salaries for designers have a wide range,
+depending upon originality and experience as
+well as technical ability. Beginners start at
+$35 a week. Some of the famous designers are
+reputed to command salaries as great as $50,000
+a year. While there are many competent
+men in this species of work, woman holds her
+own without a single apology.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(37.) <i>Detective.</i></span> Employment may be obtained
+by women on both private and government
+detective forces. In private agencies,
+women often prove valuable as they can work
+subtly. A good looking woman with brains
+can find out many secrets which a male detective
+would never discover in a hundred years.
+Women detectives are required to go into many
+dubious places and they must run up against
+unpleasant and sometimes dangerous people.
+For the woman who likes excitement, the work
+might be pleasing.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Policewomen now patrol dance halls, theatres,
+and other public places of amusement. They
+have as their province the safety of the girl
+in the city. Policewomen are usually at least
+thirty years old, sensible, and with a social
+point of view on the problems of women and
+girls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The secret service, the aristocracy of this
+type of work, too, employs women. This verges
+on diplomatic work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries paid to private women detectives
+vary from $20 to $75 a week. Policewomen
+receive the same remuneration that policemen
+do.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(38.) <i>Diplomat.</i></span> For all time women have
+played their unofficial parts in the diplomatic
+world. Who, for example, is more important
+than the wife of an ambassador or of a consul?
+It is only recently, however, that she
+has been admitted into the consular service of
+the United States. At present there are only
+a few vice-consuls who are women. However,
+the barrier is down now and more women will
+fill these positions in the future.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>To enter the consular service, women, just
+like men, must take the consular examination
+in Washington. Pay is very small and an outside
+income is most useful to those in the diplomatic
+service.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(39.) <i>Doctor.</i></span> In all branches of the profession
+hundreds of women are doing splendid
+work. An increasing number of students who
+register in medical colleges are women. Their
+scholastic standing equals those of the men
+students. Now the prejudice against women
+doctors is greatly overcome. Hospitals which
+used to discriminate against them have ceased
+to do so, and many women internes are found
+in the leading hospitals of the country.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women enter general medical practice as
+well as the specializations of the calling. In
+Pediatrics, or the science of children’s health,
+women are singularly successful. A Pediatrist
+cares for children from birth to the age of
+sixteen.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In medicine there are institutional opportunities
+for women in schools, hospital staffs,
+and large corporations. Practically all girls’
+schools and women’s colleges have women doctors.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In public health work, too, women doctors
+are in demand. Many women who write a Dr.
+in front of their names go in for medical research
+work, a limitless and valuable domain.
+Here they study the natures and try to find
+out the causes of many diseases which ravage
+the world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dietetics is an interesting medical profession.
+Women can be dietitians without graduating
+from medical school and entering the
+profession. All hospitals and sanitariums of
+any size employ dietitians.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women doctors in institutions may earn
+from $2,400 to $10,000 a year. The study of
+medicine and the preparation for the profession
+is a difficult, long process. Seven years is the
+average medical course in a college. Then a
+year to two years of interneship in a hospital
+is required. Specialization demands further
+study.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(40.) <i>Draftsman.</i></span> A draftsman draws plans
+for machinery, structures, or places. Women
+have done this highly technical work well.
+They must be trained in this particular kind
+of work thoroughly. High schools frequently
+offer courses in draftsmanship. Engineering
+colleges almost always teach it. Unless a girl
+is very mechanically minded and likes the detail
+work involved, this profession does not
+offer an unusual amount of inducement.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(41.) <i>Dramatic Coach or Director.</i></span> In school
+work, community pageants, and on the professional
+stage, women have the chance to direct
+plays and other theatrical presentations. The
+woman who wants to adopt this work should
+know the art of elocution, the literature of
+the stage, and the principles of scenic and
+lighting effects. She must have the ability to
+direct a whole organization.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dramatic coaching in schools is usually done
+in conjunction with some other work, usually
+teaching. The coach helps the students to
+prepare and present their class plays and their
+other school entertainments.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In this country there are bureaus which provide
+coaches to clubs, to civic governments, and
+to any person or organization which intends
+to put on a play, a pageant, or a festival.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The field of directing commercial dramas is
+dominated by men. Still, women do act as
+dramatic directors and several have made outstanding
+successes in this work. It is a hard
+profession to enter. Eva La Galliene, for example,
+directs her repertoire theater. She arrived
+at this position after years of work as
+an actress. She still acts in her presentations.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(42.) <i>Editor.</i></span> Newspapers, magazines, and
+publishing houses maintain staffs of editors.
+It is their duty to accept material and to see
+that it is in proper condition for publication.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the newspaper game, not many women
+become managing editors. The common editorial
+positions which women fill are: society
+editor, fashion editor, home economics editor,
+and school editor.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Magazines and publishing houses value the
+services of women editors greatly. The fashion
+magazines must be run by women. Fiction,
+travel, and informative current event
+magazines all employ women in editorial capacities.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The feminine point of view is important to
+publishers. Women edit, as a rule, the children’s
+books. To become an editor, one must
+have a good education, be and remain well-read,
+and know what the public will buy. The
+ability to recognize merit in new writers is
+also important.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Editorial positions on magazines pay quite
+well, ranging, for assistants, from $40 a week
+to $10,000 and even more for full-fledged editors.
+In the publishing world, editors do not
+receive such good money. The field is always
+full as many a college girl plans and hopes to
+enter the editorial field.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(43.) <i>Educational Director.</i></span> Stores, factories,
+banks, and other large institutions now
+have educational departments not only to train
+their employees in their own systems of business
+but to give them broader general educations.
+Classes are maintained. In stores the
+sales people receive instruction in the nature of
+fabrics, in the history of furniture, in everyday
+psychology, and in the specific system of the
+store. There is always an educational director
+with assistants.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This is a rather new type of work and a
+most excellent variation from ordinary teaching.
+Several colleges give courses in educational
+work for institutions. In Boston is
+a school called “The Prince School” which
+teaches store educational systems.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Pay for educational directors varies from
+$2,400 to $8,000 a year. Her assistants receive
+from $35 to $75 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(44.) <i>Explorer.</i></span> Women have had their
+parts in the exploration of the world. Present
+day explorations are conducted to gain scientific
+data for the most part. Women who are
+trained in some special work of science have
+found interesting times in exploration. Will
+Beebe, the fascinating explorer, has employed
+women as laboratory workers and historians
+on some of his adventurous trips. Martin Johnson
+and Osa Johnson have made notable exploration
+trips in Africa. They study wild animal
+life. Mrs. Johnson drives a truck, shoots a
+rifle accurately, cooks, and does whatever is
+necessary. Together they take motion pictures
+and collect interesting material.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(45.) <i>Exporter or Importer.</i></span> Many women
+engage in buying foreign merchandise or in
+selling American-made products abroad. Some
+work for exporting or importing firms and the
+more ambitious are in business for themselves.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In novelties, gift articles, and apparel women
+are especially successful importers. Much pottery,
+lace, china, and glass is imported by
+women. They, in turn, sell it to wholesale
+houses or to retail shops.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One woman is a successful exporter of American
+sewing machines. Another exports American
+shoes which are in great demand in
+Europe.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The best way to learn this business is not
+through schools and books but by actual experience.
+Customs must be thoroughly understood.
+It is well to speak foreign languages,
+too.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(46.) <i>Farmer.</i></span> The call of the land—the
+feel of the soil—is not confined to men, alone.
+Many women love next-to-nature life on
+farms, although it proves very strenuous.
+Women do manage vast grain farms, and they
+do it well. Probably more women run truck
+farms, raising fancy vegetables for table use.
+Still more women operate chicken farms. With
+a good market nearby, poultry farming is a
+good industry. Eggs and chickens are in demand
+all the year around, and extra money
+can be made by the sale of ducks, geese, and
+turkeys at holiday times, as every farmer
+knows.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Agricultural colleges offer splendid courses
+in modern farming. Rotation of crops, animal
+husbandry, and necessary sciences of farming
+are sensibly taught. The woman who is planning
+the vigorous life of a farm will be well-equipped
+with this knowledge, although she
+can obtain it from books if she wishes to do so.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(47.) <i>File Clerk.</i></span> The careful keeping of
+correspondence and other records is a necessary
+part of any office work. While filing is
+considered a rather ordinary task, it is considered
+highly responsible in many business
+organizations. The head of a filing system in
+a large company has an important position. By
+diligent work, and always meticulous filing, a
+girl can work herself up to a good position as
+the woman in charge of filing.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The ordinary file clerk makes from $10 to
+$25 a week. Chief file clerks make as much
+as $70 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(48.) <i>Florist.</i></span> What woman doesn’t love to
+handle flowers? To arrange them? To see
+them constantly? Among the loveliest flower
+shops in the country are those managed and
+owned by women. Women are also pleasantly
+employed in florist shops. They learn how to
+make corsage, wedding and funeral bouquets.
+They come to know the seasonableness of
+various flowers.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Clerks in florists’<a id='tn008'></a> shops are paid from $12
+to $35 a week. If a woman is thinking of owning
+a flower shop, she should work in several
+first before opening hers as there are many
+ins and outs in the floral business.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(49.) <i>Geologist.</i></span> Geology, the study of the
+surface and inside structures of the earth, offers
+a limited but engrossing sphere of opportunity.
+The life of the prospecting geologist
+is physically very vigorous, but, even so,
+women tackle this work and like it. The majority
+of women geologists, however, teach or
+do research work. In oil geology there centers
+the most commercial interest. At present
+in the United States Geological Survey, a
+woman geologist is engaged in research work
+concerning the micro-organisms of oil-producing
+rocks and sands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Mineralogy, or the study of minerals, is a
+branch of geology which women have entered.
+At the present time, little exploring for new
+ore mines is taking place as the present mines
+supply well the world’s metal needs. Consequently,
+analysis of rocks, or mineralogy, is
+more or less at a standstill from a business
+point of view.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(50.) <i>Guide.</i></span> In these days of extensive
+travel, there are interesting chances for professional
+guides. In Paris and other European
+cities, a number of intelligent young American
+women have become guides. They not only
+show tourists famous historical places and museums,
+but they direct the anxious shoppers
+to the best stores and specialty shops, the out-of-the-ordinary
+eating places, the quaint inns,
+etc. Knowledge of the native language is necessary.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Steamship and travel companies which arrange
+tours often have cultured young women
+as guides and assistant guides. All of their
+expenses are paid, of course. They must read
+up the histories of the places to be visited,
+acquaint themselves with the customs of the
+countries, and assist in the details of passports
+and baggage examination care at ports.
+On board ship these guides make themselves
+generally agreeable to the passengers, playing
+hostess at ship entertainments.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries paid to these guides are naturally
+small, as women are anxious to take the trips.
+One large tourist company pays these guides
+$75 a month, plus expenses. This amount
+gives the young women money for clothes and
+pocket money.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(51.) <i>Home Economist.</i></span> Domestic women
+with a scientific turn of mind like to delve
+deeply into home problems. Some of them
+study home economics merely to teach, others
+put this knowledge to other commercial uses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Large flour companies, canning companies,
+and other food producing companies employ
+home economists and provide them with extensive
+experimental laboratories. Here they test
+out new recipes, new uses, and prove old contentions
+concerning food values and delectabilities.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stores use home economists in advisory
+capacities. Magazines which deal with home
+problems also have on their experimental and
+editorial staffs women trained in this particular
+lore. In the whole field of home dressmaking,
+many women are employed as expert consultants.
+Pattern companies, yard goods stores,
+and sewing machine companies have home
+economists to inform prospective customers as
+to the most effective ways to make their own
+wardrobes.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(52.) <i>Hostess.</i></span> The hostess in any public
+place—be it a tea room, hotel, or club—must
+radiate dignified, reserved hospitality. She
+speaks for the business and her personality is
+very important. She adds intimacy without
+familiarity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In a tea room or cafe she often seats people,
+taking the place of the more commercial
+head waiter. It is the fashion now to be informal
+in public places. Then she sees that
+the customers receive prompt service, and she
+tries to provide any unusual courtesy which
+occurs to her.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The duties and privileges of hostesses vary
+with every establishment. In some hotels the
+hostess resides in the hotel and helps patrons
+who want advice on shops, excursions, and
+theaters. She may preside over the hotel
+library.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The hostesses spoken of may be older women,
+and most frequently are women of social standing
+who have had financial reverses. They
+find themselves equipped to meet the public
+and to be professionally gracious.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In this jazz day, there is another type of
+hostess in the merry whirl—the hostess at the
+night club. She may be a bright, attractive,
+and above all wise young woman. It is she
+who decides who will spend the most money in
+the club—and she gives these parties the most
+desirable tables. She must be a good sport
+and not take offense at any too personal remark
+which may be cast in her direction. In
+some clubs she must dance with any of the
+men who invite her. She may even be called
+upon to furnish some entertaining.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Hostesses receive from $15 a week in the
+small tea rooms to $75 a week in the flourishing
+night clubs.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(53.) <i>Housekeeper.</i></span> Large estates have
+women employed as head housekeepers. They
+sometimes do the duties which butlers have
+done, that is, assume charge of the servants
+and of the household supplies. In a domicile
+of many servants, rooms of linens, and vast
+food stores, the housekeeper has a very trustworthy
+occupation. She is paid from $90 to
+$150 a month and receives her maintenance.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Most hotels have head housekeepers. Under
+them are all the chamber maids. The housekeeper
+in a hotel is responsible for keeping
+the rooms in order. She frequently buys the
+linen supplies. She takes charge, too, of the
+vast laundry done for the hotel.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Housekeepers in hotels usually receive a
+room and meals. They are paid from $60 to
+$300 a month. The latter figure applies to the
+very large hotels, of course.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(54.) <i>House Mother.</i></span> School dormitories
+and school fraternities and sororities have
+house mothers. They plan the food, manage
+the servants, and act as guides, philosophers,
+and friends to the girls or boys who live in the
+houses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women who are accepted in schools as house mothers<a id='tn002'></a>
+are usually middle-aged women of
+genteel background and sympathetic nature.
+Their actions will be watched and imitated by
+the children, and therefore their manners must
+be above reproach. The salaries they receive
+vary from $75 to $150 a month. They receive,
+of course, maintenance.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(55.) <i>Interior Decorator.</i></span> Here is a veritable
+Elysium for women! Hundreds of them
+have entered the profession of interior decoration,
+and many of them have done remarkable
+work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The interior decorator for the home helps
+with the selection of furniture, curtains<a id='tn007'></a> and
+draperies, lamps, rugs, pictures, tapestries,
+dishes, ornaments of any kind, and even the
+linens. Perhaps the decorator is called into
+consultation with the architect. They plan
+color schemes and room proportions together.
+The decorator may go to Europe to select certain
+articles. Modest homes, too, are now employing
+decorators.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Interior decorators receive fees for their
+services. Besides this they get a commission
+for the articles which they sell. They may
+even carry furniture, pottery, fabrics, etc.,
+themselves.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stores which sell furniture and home needs
+often employ young women as consulting interior
+decorators. Customers come to them
+with their home beautifying problems. These
+young decorators receive from $25 to $150 a
+week. In large stores which specialize in this,
+the experienced interior decorator may make
+as much as $10,000 a year. There are only a
+few stores in the country which have such extensive
+departments.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(56.) <i>Insurance Agents.</i></span> Women sell insurance
+very successfully. They also hold down
+other jobs in insurance offices, such as manager
+of the woman’s department, research
+worker, or financial expert.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women are adept in selling all kinds of insurance,
+life, fire, tornado, accident and health,
+plate glass, etc. They can talk well and they
+have enthusiasm for new work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women sell other women insurance well.
+They can talk on an understanding basis with
+each other.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another branch of insurance which women
+succeed in is the Workman’s Compensation Act.
+This is regulated by law. However, adjustments
+and claims must be made. The social
+worker who specializes in this type of insurance
+represents the working man with his
+claim.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(57.) <i>Jeweler.</i></span> Precious stones, gleaming
+metals, rare craftsmanship, and a general environment
+of loveliness is what the jewelry
+business offers to women. The majority of
+positions are selling ones, but they are fascinating.
+High types of girls are demanded
+for this work. They are, it goes without saying,
+placed under bond. The wise girl who
+gets a position in a jewelry store or the jewelry
+department of a large store will study metals
+and precious stones. There is much of consuming
+interest to know.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(58.) <i>Journalist.</i></span> Many a girl has the ambition
+to do newspaper work. To be a reporter!
+It is a lively, consuming profession
+which more and more women enter continually.
+It is a game of the survival of the fittest. One
+must have a nose for news, or a propensity
+for the feature story type of writing. Reporting
+is hard work. It means long chases
+after sometimes futile stories, tedious waits
+for personages of interviewing importance, and
+sometimes great strains physically. Not all of
+the work, by any means, is interesting. Long
+lists of graduates, for example, have to be
+copied. Countless dull stories must be written.
+There is the other, thrilling side, too. Getting
+a “scoop” which means getting a good story
+before another paper has it—that is a thrill
+which the reporter loves best.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women reporters are sometimes called “sob
+sisters.” This means that they write human
+interest stories—play up emotions, dwell on
+sentimentalities, and sometimes use exaggerations.
+Women are very agile reporters. They
+are often most resourceful and clever.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The top notch positions in journalism are
+those with syndicates. Syndicates sell feature
+stories to many newspapers. The woman who
+writes for them is very well paid and her writings
+are published extensively so that she acquires
+a reputation.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Reporters on papers receive from $15 to $125
+a week. They have expense accounts for money
+used in traveling for the paper.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(59.) <i>Laboratory Technician.</i></span> Medical laboratories
+have a demand for trained workers
+who assist in the analyses and do chemical
+work in blood tests, etc. Sometimes these
+laboratories are in conjunction with hospitals,
+and again they may be part of a doctor’s office.
+Still other laboratories are run independently
+and physicians send work to them.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>City and state health departments maintain
+laboratories where cultures are examined,
+where water and milk are examined to see if
+the germ content is dangerous. Women occupy
+positions frequently in such laboratories. They
+are paid from $20 to $40 a week and must be
+trained.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(60.) <i>Landscape Gardener.</i></span> Home owners
+who covet everything beautiful for their surroundings
+employ landscape gardeners to plan
+the shrubs, trees, flowers, walks, arbors, and
+all growing things and decorations in the gardens,
+lawns, and orchards. Women have gone
+in for this landscape gardening wholeheartedly.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A knowledge of horticulture is necessary to
+the well-equipped landscape gardener. She
+must know what seasons the various flowers
+bloom so that she can plan continually blooming
+parts of the garden. She must know what
+soils nourish which plants the best. She must
+have a good sense of color and of form.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Large firms of architects employ landscape
+gardeners. Nurseries need them, too. Many
+landscape gardeners are in business for themselves.
+Cities and state governments use landscape
+gardeners to make public buildings look
+as well as possible. Landscape gardening in
+parks is a most necessary feature.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries paid to landscape gardeners vary
+from $1,500 to $8,000 a year. Every piece of
+work, when a woman is in this business for
+herself, is charged for separately, as in other
+professions.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(61.) <i>Lawyer.</i></span> A woman lawyer used to be
+considered somewhat of a freak. Now she is
+respected and admired. Although women have
+not invaded law as they have medicine and
+some of the other professions, they are making
+significant inroads. They have been uniquely
+successful in maintaining positions in the national,
+state, and municipal legal forces.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women do try cases in court splendidly.
+Furthermore, they prove admirable in probate
+or estate work. In the domestic relations
+courts they evince a basic understanding of
+legal situations which involve emotional conflicts.
+In children’s courts, too, they prove
+their right to be in the honored profession of
+law. More and more trust companies are finding
+women lawyers suitable for their legal
+work.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(62.) <i>Librarian.</i></span> The girl who is interested
+in quiet, intelligent, and rather modestly paid
+work, will do well to interest herself in libraries.
+They may be divided into these classes:
+public, school, technical, and private. Everyone
+knows public libraries and the way they
+function. The larger libraries have subdivisions
+in which librarians specialize. For example,
+a woman may be a children’s librarian
+or a reference room librarian. The librarian
+can be a great influence for good in the community
+as she can help to direct the reading
+of men, women, and children. Many ideas are
+formed by reading.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>School and technical libraries require trained
+workers, too. The librarian in a school should
+have a fresh, youthful point of view. She
+must assist the student in reference work, give
+him inspiration, and keep all the many details
+of her work in good order. Medical and legal
+associations maintain libraries for reference
+and research work. Capable women often take
+charge of these.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Private libraries are maintained by extremely
+wealthy people, by scholars, and by collectors.
+Some of these private collections of rare
+books are interesting beyond description. Librarians
+for these jeweled shelves keep the
+books well catalogued, entertain guests with
+information concerning the volumes, and assist
+their employers if they are using the library
+for any particular piece of work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Colleges now have courses for library work.
+There are distinct schools for librarians, too.
+Salaries are not munificent, averaging from
+$60 to $300 a month. Some head librarians of
+large institutions receive as high as $6,000 a
+year. They are few and far between.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(63.) <i>Mechanic.</i></span> Traditionally women are
+most awkward with a hammer, a monkey
+wrench, or a screw driver. They, themselves,
+have come to accept the notion that they cannot
+be mechanically adept. Every once in a
+while this contention is heartily disproved.
+A woman is noted who is a garage worker—or
+who owns a garage. One large American city
+boasts an expert woman plumber. In this
+day and age, if a woman is interested in any
+mechanical pursuit—from engineering to operating
+a steam shovel—there is no reason why
+she cannot follow out her own desires. More
+power to her!</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(64.) <i>Merchandise Expert.</i></span> Stores have
+large corps of buyers; a tendency in modern
+storekeeping is to have merchandise superintendents
+over groups of these buyers. The
+buyers then come to the merchandise experts
+for advice, to talk over market conditions, and
+to figure out special promotional work. The
+merchandise expert has either been a buyer
+or has had advertising experience.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This is a most responsible position. The
+woman occupying it must know merchandise,
+advertising, and must be able to predict demands
+for certain classes of articles. Sales
+promotion work is usually a part of her job.
+That means that she plans special events, such
+as birthday sales, founder’s day sales, spring
+sales, etc. She spends time in the markets
+with the buyers. She must keep in vital touch
+with public sentiments. She is held accountable
+for the failures of any departments.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Men, too, occupy similar positions. Since
+women have been in the field of buying for
+years, they are not resented as merchandise
+experts. Salaries paid to them are much
+larger than in the majority of occupations.
+Their year’s checks would total from $5,000 to
+$20,000. Only women with long experience and
+remarkably clear insight can make outstanding
+successes in this line. It is a good mark for
+which to aim.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(65.) <i>Milliners.</i></span> The old order changeth!
+Women used to have their hats made from
+selected shapes and trimmings. Today the
+made-to-order hat is quite a rarity. Since the
+simple, tailored hats have come into existence,
+millinery has been a simple trade, too. A
+recent development adds a bit of technique.
+In Paris there is a craze to have the hat
+draped and pinned on the head of the individual
+who is to wear it. This makes decidedly
+individual styles. American milliners are trying
+out this idea, and, if it works, it will boost
+the profession. Today milliners buy their hats
+all trimmed and their jobs resolve into selling
+occupations.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(66.) <i>Model.</i></span> Mannikin is another name.
+The model must be a beautiful girl, exquisitely
+proportioned. She wears clothing that prospective
+customers may see just how well it looks.
+Models are used in many high class retail
+shops. Here the 200 pound customer fancies
+she will look just like the lissom model—and
+she signs the dotted line and has the dress
+delivered.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Wholesale houses invariably use models for
+clothing. The girls show buyers the styles.
+They work hard, sometimes changing dresses
+or coats a couple of hundred times a day, when
+the season is busy. They slip in and out of
+garments with lightning speed. They must
+walk just so—and answer any questions the
+buyer may care to ask, although there is almost
+always a salesman present.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Models for clothing receive from $25 to $60
+a week. The average pay in a wholesale dress
+or coat house is $35 a week. Photographers’
+models are paid by the sitting. The best
+studios pay $5 for a street clothing picture and
+$10 for a sitting in lingerie, hose, etc. Some
+of the photographers’ models make very good
+money.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(67.) <i>Movie Director.</i></span> Several women carry
+flying colors in this new and developing work.
+Usually the woman movie directors have
+evolved from scenario writers, caption writers,
+and others connected in some way with the
+industry. They must be highly skilled in all
+the mechanical knowledge concerning photography
+and they must understand film presentation
+of human feelings. Then, they must
+be able to instill in the actresses and actors the
+spirit of the production. They are paid either
+by the picture or on a salary basis.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It might be well here to say a few words
+concerning the moving picture field, exclusive
+of acting. Studios employ a staff of scenario
+readers, caption writers, and scenario writers.
+Still other women are employed in the advertising
+and research departments. The movies
+have a glorious future ahead of them, and any
+woman who believes herself mentally equipped
+to find her place in this growth will do well
+to get a position in a company where she can
+learn the most possible about the art of moving
+pictures. The University of Southern California
+is said to be planning a series of courses
+on the moving picture industry.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(68.) <i>Musician.</i></span> This is an all inclusive
+title: it embraces pianists, violinists, harpists,
+singers, composers, and teachers. To say nothing
+of cellists and other artists who perform
+on musical instruments. It takes in grand
+opera stars and tin pan alley singers.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Every year hundreds of young people come
+to large cities to study music. Many of them
+are undoubtedly talented. They do not realize
+the hazardous path between them and fame.
+It is fraught with many unreasonable difficulties.
+Ability, personality, and good luck all
+contribute their bits. Health is surely not to
+be overlooked. Training for a musical career
+is very expensive and not at all certain.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Teaching music is another field. It offers
+more variety now than ever before. We have
+community song leaders who lead the singing
+of great crowds of people. We have coaches
+for municipal song fests. We have choir directors.
+A splendid technical education is an
+absolute requisite.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The compensation for public performers in
+music is most uncertain. Their publicity expenses
+are always great, as they must keep
+their names constantly before the public. Jealousy
+exists among such temperamental people.
+But, with determination, talent, and patience
+as guardian angels, many musicians do arrive
+at their goals.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(69.) <i>Novelist.</i></span> Every woman has at least
+one story to write, the history of her own life.
+Within the most humble and the quietest person
+exists some interesting story. In the
+present time, many women are writing these
+and other stories.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is advisable for a woman to write a novel,
+provided she has ability to write and provided
+she does not have to depend upon the income
+of the novel for her livelihood. Unless a novel
+is a very good seller, it does not make much
+money. The average royalty on a book by an
+unknown or little known author is 20 per cent.
+If a thousand copies are sold, that means only
+$200. Of course, if the book seems adaptable
+for the movies, a nice sum is netted. The
+movies will buy the rights from anywhere in
+the neighborhood of $1,000 to $10,000 for an
+unknown author. Some publishers have clauses
+in their contracts which give them a percentage
+of the movie rights of books they get out.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(70.) <i>Numerologist and Astrologist.</i></span> These
+are more or less mystic beliefs, although both
+claim mathematical precision and formulae.
+Numerology is the science of numbers, its
+adherents say. Every letter in one’s name has
+a numerical value, and combinations of these
+values have supposed meanings. Followers of
+this belief work out their destinies from their
+names. If the results are not pleasing, one
+changes one’s name to something which will
+bring happiness and good fortune. Experts
+are needed to work out values and to suggest
+the best possible combinations. A surprising
+number of women numerologists seem to be
+kept busy by anxious clients. Their charge
+varies from $5 to $25 a consultation. They
+cite as proofs many famous people who attained
+their prominence only after changing
+their names.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Astrology, in its popular conception, is the
+study of the influence on human life of atmospheric
+conditions dealing particularly with the
+sun, the moon, and the stars. Each person has
+a horoscope which tells him his character and
+will provide advice for his activities. Belief
+in astrology is not new, as ancient nations revered
+it and practiced its commands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One well known woman astrologist in New
+York receives $25 for a horoscope reading
+which takes her about a half hour. Her time
+is so much in demand that she has a tremendous
+waiting list and no appointments can be
+made sooner than thirty days in the future.
+Of course, her regular clients who consult her
+on business matters daily have access to her
+advice. (See Little Blue Book No. 767.)</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(71.) <i>Nurse.</i></span> Humanity calls to those who
+follow this profession conscientiously. In
+nursing, there is more of a future than many
+people consider. A highly skilled nurse is invaluable
+to a surgeon. In hospitals there are
+many executive positions for intelligent nurses.
+In public health work, hundreds of positions
+are open, and more will be open, to socially
+minded nurses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Most hospitals now accept only high school
+graduates as probate nurses. The average
+course in a hospital is for three years. Some,
+especially University hospitals, have raised the
+time to four years. Besides actually caring
+for the patients, the student nurses must study
+a prescribed course dealing with the science
+of nursing.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Graduate nurses who do case work make very
+good money, the average running from $8 to
+$12 a day, but it must be remembered that they
+do not work continually. Their expenses of
+living continue, and they may spend many
+idle days. Some nurses secure positions with
+invalids and stay on the same cases for years.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(72.) <i>Occupational Therapist.</i></span> This is largely
+the teaching of arts and crafts to injured
+persons. The World War developed this most
+valuable idea. Keep the injured person occupied!
+Keep his thoughts on something besides
+his own troubles. So they teach incurables
+basket weaving, lamp making, doll making,
+etc. It is truly a great help. The patient
+becomes interested and cheerful. He may
+make his living and thus evade the experience
+of being dependent upon his family, his friends,
+the state, or charity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A few large hospitals in the country have
+courses in occupational therapy. One engaged
+in this work can feel she is doing great good
+in a rather cheerless world. It could be depressing,
+work, too, if the therapist failed to
+realize the larger aspects of the job.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The salary is as good as paid to private
+nurses. This work extends to institutions for
+the feeble-minded, too. These unfortunate
+people are taught to do some interesting and
+useful work.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(73.) <i>Pharmacist.</i></span> This includes the manufacture
+of drugs, the filling of medical prescriptions,
+and the teaching of pharmacy.
+Women who are interested in chemistry often
+enter this field. They are exact and efficient.
+They may go into manufacturing plants in
+positions of supervision, or they may take positions
+in drug stores. Pharmacists are needed
+in hospitals, too. There is no discrimination
+against women in this work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries range from $30 to $65 a week for
+clerks and from $50 to $100 for executive work
+in manufacturing plants. There is a great
+research field in pharmacy which invites
+women to enter.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(74.) <i>Photographer.</i></span> Photography in its best
+expression may be considered an art. Light,
+proportion, and line figure in the fine photograph.
+Commercially, portrait photography is
+the most paying. Women photographers who
+have specialized in taking interesting and lifelike
+pictures of people have built up great
+patronages. Some women specialize in photographing
+children. This requires a patience
+with children to whom a large camera is a
+new and often terrifying mechanism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Theatric photographing is also a profitable
+business, as stars must have new pictures taken
+frequently and must hand them out in large
+numbers to their fans.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A newer form of photography for women is
+taking moving pictures. This science has developed
+remarkably in the last decade; there
+are thousands of facts to know about it. Women
+have assisted in this field for some time, and
+a few individuals have attained executive jobs.
+It is a perfectly possible profession for women.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(75.) <i>Playwright.</i></span> Like writing novels, the
+fashioning of plays is a splendid avocation
+until one’s reputation is established. The
+world of the theater is ever uncertain, always
+astonishing in its developments. Even the
+success of a play can be forecast by none.
+Many, many plays are accepted, produced, and
+then they fail. This means no or small royalty
+for the author.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women succeed in play-writing just as well
+as men do. There have been many outstanding
+hits in the theatre world which have been
+written by women.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The writing of vaudeville skits can be a
+remunerative business, although there are pitfalls
+to be noted. It is better to sell a vaudeville
+act outright for cash than on a royalty
+basis unless the act happens to be very well
+known and established. The woman ambitious
+to write vaudeville acts should go ahead and
+advertise in some of the vaudeville magazines.
+A vaudeville act should sell for $100 and up.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(76.) <i>Politician.</i></span> Women have always been
+politicians, in their own way, even before they
+obtained suffrage. Now many women take
+politics seriously, manage campaigns, run for
+offices themselves, and serve on committees.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There is always work to be done in the political
+parties, and no woman of some intelligence
+and application will find it difficult to
+get a humble entree into the political arena.
+Her first task will be electioneering. Then she
+may be appointed to some committee. The
+majority of these jobs are not paid.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In political organizations there are paid positions
+which are not political graft jobs. The
+League of Women Voters employs a force of
+women, although their task is informative
+rather than propagandic.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(77.) <i>Printer.</i></span> Printing is one of the master
+trades today in this world of the written word.
+There are a considerable number of women
+who are in the printing business for themselves.
+There are others who work at the
+trade, belong to the union, and do well in their
+jobs. One woman runs the printing shop on
+a large ship; she prepares the menus, printed
+bulletins, etc., which are issued by this floating
+city.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Printing is tremendously important to advertising.
+The printer of tomorrow must
+understand lay-out, typography in its relation
+to business, and must have an esthetic sense.
+It would seem that women would fit into
+this scheme admirably. Formerly not so much
+appearance as context mattered in an advertisement;
+today each has equal importance.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women printers receive the same wages as
+men printers do. This varies somewhat as to
+locale, but wages are generally good ranging
+from $5 to $10 a day.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(78.) <i>Proofreader.</i></span> Publishers, printers,
+newspapers, and advertising departments need
+proofreaders to see that printed matter is
+presented correctly. Proofreaders compare the
+printed proofs with original copy and make
+corrections which are needed. Proofreaders
+must have an accurate knowledge of spelling,
+grammar, and all rhetorical uses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Proofreading is an excellent way of learning
+any of the above-mentioned businesses. In
+itself, it is not an occupation with a brilliant
+future. Proofreaders earn from $15 to $40 a
+week. Sometimes the work is of great interest,
+and again they may be proofreading long
+columns of figures, lists of names, or reports
+of unoriginal speeches.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(79.) <i>Psychiatrist.</i></span> Psychiatry is the study
+of the nature and remedy for mental diseases.
+Life today is complex and full of nervous and
+emotional strain. The need for mental balance
+is great. The science of the mind and its
+emotions has developed rapidly in the last
+twenty years.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Psychiatrists may be doctors, nurses, or social
+workers. They help the individual to adjust
+himself to his environment. Women have
+entered this new calling extensively. There is
+a psychiatric school at Smith College every
+summer for young women who intend to go into
+the field of psychiatric social work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One of the interesting developments of this
+new science is the Child Guidance Clinic. Many
+cities have them; hospitals find them of great
+service. In some cities, the delinquent children
+are referred from the juvenile courts to
+the guidance clinics. The psychiatrists try to
+discover the causes for the children’s unsocial
+actions. Often the corrective work must be
+done with the parents. The psychiatrist gets
+all the history possible of the case and evolves
+from that her conclusions. Some of the larger
+settlement houses have established psychiatric
+clinics, too.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Salaries for trained psychiatrists (not doctors)
+range from $1,800 to $4,500 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(80.) <i>Psycho-Analyst.</i></span> The majority of reputable
+psycho-analysts have degrees in medicine.
+Individuals who have a hard time getting
+along in the world emotionally have been
+greatly helped by psycho-analysis. Its purpose
+is to overcome complexes, fears, and senses
+of guilt. Analysis means a thorough going
+over of the mind, its associations and its symbols,
+and from this analysis the individual
+emerges a much more complete person. An
+analysis takes from two months to a year, depending
+upon the mental and emotional state
+of the individual and upon the technique of the
+analyst.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There is one woman physician in New York
+who is an international authority on psycho-analysis.
+She has studied with the leading
+men in the field and she meets with excellent
+results in her work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Analysts receive from $5 to $40 an hour for
+their time.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(81.) <i>Public Health Worker.</i></span> A well-informed
+people is a healthy people. The spread
+of the knowledge of hygiene has lessened the
+death rate remarkably. People must be taught
+to care for their bodies. Governments must
+know that factories, plants, street cars, theaters,
+and all working and gathering places are
+clean, well-ventilated, and not harmful for the
+people who attend them. Child labor must be
+regulated. All of this comes under the head
+of public health work. Almost always the work
+is done by the government, but there are also
+privately endowed institutions to carry on the
+purposes of better living.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Public health workers do not receive luxurious
+salaries. The nurses do not earn as much
+as they might in private work. They average
+from $25 to $50 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(82.) <i>Publicity Agent.</i></span> Dramas, banks, manufacturing
+plants, schools, cities, stores, and
+even prominent individuals have publicity
+agents. With some institutions, like the Rockefeller<a id='tn006'></a>
+Institute, the publicity agents keep the
+public properly informed of the work they are
+doing. With theaters it is for the express
+purpose of inciting interest which will make
+people bring their money to the box office.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Publicity agents gather facts, get them into
+interesting and presentable shape, and see that
+they get into papers and magazines. Journalism
+is an excellent training for this type of
+work. The publicity agent must know what
+interests people. Publicity is news. It is not
+paid advertising.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Publicity agents receive from $35 to $500 a
+week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(83.) <i>Realtor.</i></span> Women are engaged in the
+real estate business in endless capacities. In
+the Florida boom many women made and lost
+as much as any of the men promoters. Women
+sell real estate, act as brokers, serve as agents,
+make leases, and handle collections of rents.
+In New York many women rent whole apartment
+houses and sublet apartments.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In selling a house, a woman has an advantage
+over a man. She can explain to another
+woman, probably the housewife who will reside
+in the new home, all the advantages of the
+domestic architecture, the school conditions for
+the children, and other kindred feminine questions.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The income of women realtors varies greatly
+because much of the work is done on a commission
+basis.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(84.) <i>Religious Worker.</i></span> Churches today
+have efficient, business-like organizations and
+employ trained people to carry on work. Pastors
+of large congregations have secretaries,
+social workers, and other assistants.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In this modern time, too, women are becoming
+ministers of the gospel in some denominations.
+They are also following evangelical
+work, carrying on revival meetings, leading
+music for camp meetings. Some of the outstanding
+sky pilots of the day are girls and
+women.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The tendency today is to make the church a
+social center, too, where young people can
+enjoy healthy fun. Librarians and recreational
+directors are employed.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Since churches are notably poor financially
+and since the work is supposed to have spiritual
+recompense, salaries to workers are rather
+small. They would average from $40 to $150
+a month.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(85.) <i>Saleswoman.</i></span> The more unusual types
+of sales positions will be mentioned here. The
+position of saleswoman in a store is all right
+if used for experience; buyers are selected from
+sales persons of recognized ability.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women have made big strides in the business
+of selling stocks and bonds. They not only
+sell to other women but to men and business
+organizations. Investors are turning to bonds
+now as never before and cities all over the
+United States are harboring bond houses.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Women make good automobile sales records.
+They demonstrate the car, talk over its mechanical
+points, and finally hand over the dotted
+line.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>As much selling is done on commission, the
+salaries paid depend entirely upon the individual.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(86.) <i>Secretary.</i></span> Big business men must
+have their secretaries to whom they dictate
+letters sometimes, and whose business it is to
+be the biggest possible help to their employers.
+Sometimes secretaries know a vast amount
+about a man’s business and personal affairs;
+therefore she must be trustworthy. A secretary
+evolves usually from a stenographer.
+There are secretarial schools, too, which teach
+splendid courses. A secretary must have a
+neat appearance, must have good sense, and
+must be able to meet people. She sees almost
+all of the callers who want to see her employer.
+Often she must judge the importance
+of their business. She is there to save her
+employer’s time. Secretaries receive from $25
+to $100 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another branch of this work is that of the
+social secretary. She attends to the details of
+the social life of some woman. This woman
+may just be trying to get into so-called society
+or she may actually need some one to take
+care of her engagement book, send out invitations
+for affairs, and do miscellaneous errands
+and tasks for her. Social secretaries must possess
+rare tact. They usually are girls or women
+who have once held enviable social positions
+but who have been forced to earn their own
+livings. Their salaries range from $60 to $175
+a month. In some cases they live in the home
+whose social activities they regulate.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(87.) <i>Settlement Worker.</i></span> Most cities have
+community houses where the children and
+adults can gather for recreation and for education.
+Club rooms, swimming pools, libraries,
+gymnasiums, and classes in cultural and occupational
+subjects are maintained. These are
+generally for the poorer people.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The settlements have resident workers who
+live in the house. They direct the children,
+teach the sports, and supervise all the activities
+generally. Settlement workers must be
+sympathetic, sane-minded, and cheerful. They
+must be able to see above the horizon to a day
+when all peoples will be wise and clean! For
+the teaching of personal hygiene is one of the
+great tasks of the settlement worker. Resident
+members of a settlement house receive from
+$80 to $150 a month.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(88.) <i>Silversmith.</i></span> Individuality in jewelry
+is considered highly desirable. Today hand-made
+jewelry is at a premium. Artistically inclined
+young women have taken up the study
+of delicate metal work and they turn out beautiful
+pieces of work. Odd pins, wondrous rings,
+daring earrings, gorgeous bracelets emerge
+from their work tables.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jewelry designing is also a good profession.
+Every year hundreds of novelties are brought
+out, and these have been conceived by some
+designer. Women find interest and good pay
+in this branch of the art known as that of the
+silversmith.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(89.) <i>Social Service Worker.</i></span> All work for
+organized charities comes under this head. So
+do other occupations already described, such as
+settlement work, public health work, certain
+phases of psychiatry, etc. Charitable organizations
+employ numbers of case workers who
+investigate home and working conditions of
+people who come to them for help. Case histories
+are taken, giving the parentage of the
+people in question, and quite a cross-section of
+their own histories. Their health, their working
+conditions, their living conditions, and all
+of their environment are surveyed. The present
+idea of charitable work is not to give people
+help except in dire necessity, but to assist
+them to stand on their own feet. Education
+is the greatest work for the poor and the unfortunate.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Case workers are paid from $60 to $150 a
+month.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(90.) <i>Statistician.</i></span> It is good business to
+keep accurate records. The future can only be
+interpreted in the light of the past, and figures,
+not impressions or personal convictions,
+tell the truth. How many pairs of gloves, for
+example, did a department sell? A guess is not
+at all valuable.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In organizations of size, statisticians are employed.
+They compile figures and often help
+in the conclusions drawn from the figures. In
+science, too, statisticians are valuable. Statistics
+will be the basis of historical content and
+interpretation in the future.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Statisticians should be well trained in mathematics
+and in economics. Women are equally
+as successful as men in this field. The pay for
+statistical work varies from $18 to $75 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(91.) <i>Stenographer.</i></span> Many girls study stenography
+as a foundation for a business career.
+Provided a girl does not know what type of
+work she wishes to do, this is commendable. If
+she knows what interests her most and if she
+feels she has the ability to do it, it is better
+for her to get actual experience in the work
+she is going to do. If shorthand and typing
+will not be necessary for that work, it seems a
+waste of time and effort to learn these mechanics
+which will not prove of practical value.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One excellent feature about stenography is
+that a woman rarely has a very difficult time
+getting a position doing that work. In the
+rarer and more interesting positions, jobs are
+fewer and a wait is often required before one
+lands just the right thing.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Two high type varieties of stenography are
+court reporting and public work. The girl who
+is a public stenographer is in business for herself.
+She can work up a nice future, hiring
+others to do work which she cannot handle.
+Court reporting requires great speed, accuracy,
+and a knowledge of legal terminology.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stenographers average from $12 to $100 a
+week; the latter pertains to court reporters
+and other experts.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(92.) <i>Stylist.</i></span> Stylists see all the new fashions
+in apparel and forecast for the benefit
+of buyers and shop owners just what will be
+new and popular. They receive salaries from
+stores and shops. It is their work to see what
+smart people are wearing, to know what the
+most distinctive shops are offering, and to tell
+what is in good taste and what is salable. The
+more important stylists go abroad for the
+Paris openings. They assist buyers by advising
+them of style desirability. Stylists often
+assemble correct accessories for certain dresses
+or coats. They often attend to the style shows
+which the majority of stores give every season.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stylists must know merchandise. They must
+recognize what fashions will meet with popular
+approval, and they must always be very
+well-dressed themselves.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stylists receive from $25 to $150 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(93.) <i>Teacher.</i></span> The day is now gone when
+any girl who wanted to earn her own living
+had to be a school ma’am. Teaching should
+be a chosen calling, nothing else. Only when
+a woman feels a great urge to teach should
+she enter this profession. Too many temperamentally
+unfit women have assumed the truly
+sacred task of teaching children and youths.
+Preparation for teaching is vastly better in
+the present colleges and universities which
+have whole staffs of scholars in educational
+departments.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another form of teaching is tutoring. This
+can be done in part time. Young people need
+to have special lessons in subjects which are
+difficult for them, and also for college entrance
+examinations. Tutors are paid from 50c to
+$4 an hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Not as many families as formerly have governesses
+nowadays<a id='tn004'></a>. A governess does not occupy
+a very exalted position; she is likely to
+be treated as a high class servant. Still, for
+families which travel, governesses are necessary.
+Girls who take these positions have a
+chance to see some of the large and inviting
+world. Governesses receive from $60 to $150
+a month, plus, of course, their rooms and food.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Teachers in grade schools receive from $75
+to $250 a month. High school teachers receive
+slightly more. College teachers are variously
+paid, ranging from $1,200 to $5,000 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Teachers in private schools come into more
+social contact with the students and lead a
+more personal type of school life.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(94.) <i>Tea Room Manager.</i></span> Americans have
+adopted the idea of informal dining, and our
+highways and byways are dotted with interesting
+little tea rooms. Stores maintain them and
+they prove popular with customers. The old
+idea was that anyone could manage a tea room.
+This has proved erroneous. Like everything
+else, this vocation requires training. New
+York and other large cities have schools which
+teach the financial, dietetic, and atmosphere
+principles which govern the successful tea
+room. Girls who are going to open tea shops
+for themselves enter. So do girls who want
+to obtain positions running tea shops for
+others. Part of the course is laboratory work,
+or actual experience in tea rooms. The other
+part consists of lectures, discussions, and directed
+reading in kindred subjects.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Girls and women who are tea room managers
+receive from $25 to $75 a week salary.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(95.) <i>Title Examiner.</i></span> In every real estate
+deal, title must be given to the property transacted.
+This usually consists of an abstract,
+brought to date, and a deed. The abstract, of
+course, must tell the entire history of the
+property and show tax payments. All of this
+requires considerable investigation and work.
+It is a combined specialization of real estate
+and legal knowledge. A clever girl could
+work herself up to this position of title examiner
+by learning all the salient facts in the
+matter. Title examiners for realty companies
+are quite well paid, averaging from $25 to $65
+a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(96.) <i>Translator.</i></span> Rapid communication
+and easy transportation have made the whole
+world kin. Today there is a vast net of business
+transactions between the countries of the
+world. That necessitates a facility with different
+languages. A translator can have a
+position as a stenographer or a more important
+position in which she figures in the policy
+of her company. Her knowledge of a certain
+foreign language will make her valuable.
+Most banks employ translators. Commercial
+translators find in their pay envelopes from
+$25 to $50 a week.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(97.) <i>Undertaker.</i></span> The more dignified term
+is mortician. Women have received certificates
+as embalmers and almost every city has at
+least one undertaking establishment owned by
+a woman. It is a little impossible to conceive
+of the young girl choosing this depressing vocation;
+still, the work is certainly one in which
+kindness and sympathy can be used.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(98.) <i>Vocational Guide.</i></span> Here is a truly
+twentieth century profession! The realization
+that every person should be equipped to earn
+his own living makes the matter of choosing
+a vocation an important step. Many people do
+work which they cannot enjoy; consequently,
+they do not succeed as well as they might if
+they were in some more congenial type of employment.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A vocational director helps people to choose
+occupations for which they are best fitted.
+Some colleges have these directors who talk
+over the various professional possibilities with
+the students and help them to select courses
+of study which will contribute the most to the
+end in view. This important work will be more
+developed in the future, and settlement houses
+will doubtlessly have vocational directors, too.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>These professional women receive from
+$2,400 to $5,000 a year.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(99.) <i>Waitress.</i></span> Here is another trade which
+almost always offers openings to relatively
+untrained workers. It is perfectly all right
+for girls and women to do this work, and as
+honest labor it commands dignity and respect,
+but it is not to be considered as a permanent
+occupation. It might prove extremely valuable
+experience for someone who planned to open
+a tea room. Waitresses in high class cafes
+make pretty good money in tips. They are
+paid very low salaries. Of course, they receive
+one or two meals a day depending upon the
+length of time they work. $12 to $50 a week is
+the average earning of a waitress.</p>
+
+<p class='c008'><span class='large'>(100.) <i>X-ray-Operator.</i></span> The use of the X-ray
+for examination of the bone and tissue structures
+of teeth and other parts of the body has
+brought a new profession to women, that of
+operating the machine and developing the
+plates.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The machine is not tremendously difficult to
+operate, but it requires great accuracy and dependability.
+It is rather interesting work for
+a girl. She has the pleasing environment of
+a doctor’s office or of a laboratory or clinic.
+Her work is with human beings and she is
+assisting to better them physically.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>X-ray operators receive from $20 to $50 a
+week, depending upon their skill and experience.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch_4' class='c007'><span class='xlarge'>CONCLUSION</span></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c008'>In explanation, there have been considered
+here one hundred practical professions for
+women, and salaries have been given. As economic
+conditions in different sections of the
+country vary enormously, these figures must
+be considered only as indicative.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In studying women in the professional fields
+of the world today, several inevitable and engrossing
+conclusions emerge from the mass of
+facts. First, that woman has gained tremendous
+independence in the business world. There
+is scarcely any profession which she cannot
+enter, if she feels a calling to it. The trail has
+been blazed. With this vast new panorama,
+girls should not choose professions just because
+they are different. The old “know thyself”
+still holds good, and each girl and woman
+should study her own personality and her own
+capability. Advice from successful business
+women is valuable; get several points of view,
+if you are considering adopting a profession.
+Consider, too, the locality in which you will
+live when you practice your profession. Some
+of the newer vocations are possible only in
+large cities.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The outstanding thing which can be said to
+all girls and women is, “Get an education—receive
+a training for your job.” If a girl has
+her choice of going to school or going to work,
+keep on in school, electing studies which will
+help you in your business work. If you find
+yourself facing the necessity of earning a living,
+and you have only ordinary training, get
+a job and go to night school or take correspondence
+courses. Many universities now offer
+such courses. To succeed, you just need to
+know a little more than the other fellow.
+Knowledge, and the ability to apply it, is
+power in the business world.</p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='tnote'>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class='large'>Transcriber’s Notes</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+  <ul  class='ul_1'>
+    <li>Note: Printer’s errors and apparent misspellings have been changed and are noted below
+    </li>
+    <li>Note: Hyphenation and capitalization have been standardized in cases noted below,
+    where there is a predominant form in the text
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn003'>Pg. 12</a>: Fixed capitalization: ‘... and turkish baths’ to ‘Turkish’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn005'>Pg. 16</a>: Corrected typo: ‘The duties of these employes’ to ‘employees’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn001'>Pg. 23</a>: Corrected typo: ‘... sytles which lend themselves’ to ‘styles’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn008'>Pg. 30</a>: Added missing apostrophe: ‘Clerks in florists shops are’ to
+    ‘florists’ shops’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn002'>Pg. 35</a>: Removed hyphen: ‘... house-mothers are usually’ to ‘house
+    mothers’—Without hyphen earlier
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn007'>Pg. 35</a>: Corrected typo: ‘... selection of furniture, curtain’ to ‘curtains’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn006'>Pg. 53</a>: Corrected typo: ‘... like the Rockefellow Institute’ to ‘Rockefeller’
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn004'>Pg. 60</a>: Corrected typo: ‘... formerly have governesses nowdays’ to ‘nowadays’
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
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