Monday, October 23.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Grads not using talent says AWS
By Beth Gaeddert
Kansan Staff Reporter
Surprisingly few KU women graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Education use what they have learned.
This was reported by the Associated Women Students (AWS) Commission on the Status of Women in its first published report last June.
The report said conclusions were made from a study of graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Education.
The report said the "women are not aware of the career potentials and possibilities in most major fields, that they choose a major because they must and that when they graduate, they have very little knowledge of how to find a job that will utilize their four year's study."
The KU Commission on the Status of Women is patterned after the national Commission on the Status of Women established in 1961 by President Kennedy to examine the position of American women relative to men.
KU unique
Although all 50 states have commissions, KU is the only university with such an organization. When the KU commission sent the report to the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, it was made available to all state commissions, said Mrs. Paul Crawford, assistant dean of women and advisor to the group.
Sara Paretsky, Eudora special student and chairman of last year's commission, said in the report's introduction that lack of placement services in many departments is a major reason for graduates not using their talents.
"The political science department is a striking exception to this, but in general graduates have no idea how best to use their talents." Miss Paretsky said.
Few in sciences
The commission found that comparatively few women major in the sciences but the small number is roughly equal to the number of men in languages, including English, and about half the male enrollment in the social sciences. The female/male ratio at KU is approximately 1:2.
The report said, "Thus in the humanities, the percentage of women majors is higher than in the University as a whole; whereas in the sciences it is considerably lower. In the school of education, the percentage of women enrolled is about three times greater than the actual ratio in the University."
Currently being tested are the commission's hypotheses that women enroll in those major areas with a "feminine" role, such as education and nursing and that sciences are considered "masculine" in which women either should not or could not participate.
Two of the commission's three committees made studies from questionnaires sent to a random sample of women who graduated from KU in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing and the School of Education in 1958 and 1966.
Conclusions made
Some of the general conclusions drawn from the study called "A Study of the Application of Academic Majors to Occupations of Women Graduating in the Classes of 1958-66" are:
- Only about half the female liberal arts graduates plan to use their undergraduate training in their professional lives.
- About half of the women graduates plan to do further graduate work, but only one of two of these will actually complete a graduate degree.
- Approximately 80 per cent of the women plan to work after marriage until they have children.
- Nurses marry early
- Nurses tend to marry and have children earlier than college
Thinking About Law School?
A representative of the Southern Methodist University School of Law (Dallas, Texas) will be on campus Tuesday, October 24, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
206 Strong Hall (College Office) to talk to students interested in attending law school upon graduation. For information and to make appointments see Mrs. Padget, 206 Strong.
A second committee studied "Job Continuity Survey, School of Education" and found:
graduates and more nurses with children intend to work.
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The committee concluded there is no "observable relationship" between a woman having children and the level of education she attains, that women with no college education and women with advanced degrees are more inclined to have jobs and children than the women with no degrees or with undergraduate degrees.
- More of last year's graduates are planning to continue formal education than the graduates of nine years ago.
- The group of women with a year or more of college, but who do not hold degrees, make up 41 per cent of the population. They have no jobs, no children, and their parents have had no college education.
- The college graduate group, representing 40 per cent of the population, have jobs, are not in class, and do not have children. Their parents have had no college education.
- About 75 per cent of the 1958 education graduates are not teaching now and about 29 per cent of the 1966 graduates are not teaching. Most said they weren't teaching because they were married.
Married women
- The group with advanced degrees, representing six per cent, is employed and not in class. The average number of children is 1.5 who are under five years of age. Their parents have had little or no college education.
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A third study of married women divided a random group of married women on campus into three hypothetical groups with these characteristics;
classes. The average number of children is 1.62 under five years of age. The group member's parents have had no college education.
- Married women with no college education, who make up 25 per cent of the population, who are working and not enrolled in
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