Speaker feels employment of professional women lags
Women employed in professional positions are in danger of becoming extinct if the employment trends of the last 40 years continue, the chairman of the Kansas Commission on the Status of Women, said yesterday.
Mrs. Frances Barrett told women attending the Junior-Senior Breakfast in the Kansas Union that women are losing the employment toeholds won during the battles for suffrage and education, and if they accept their present position, then professional women are doomed.
ALTHOUGH the average woman can expect to work outside the home 30 years during her lifetime, the jobs she holds are lowpaying and semi-skilled," Mrs. Barrett said.
"American women are not availing themselves to their fullest opportunity because too many women shy away from commitments in order to enter marriage," she said. "They face a dilemma—home versus career. This problem has been solved. The answer is home and job."
"A married woman can and does have many roles in the community, within her family and in a job," she added. "Complexity is a functional satisfying answer. By the time a woman is in her middle thirties her children are in school and she can expect to look forward to 30 years of labor outside the home.
"AMERICA NEEDS professionals, and it can't afford to waste manpower," she said. "But we are suffering from prosperity. Women can financially afford to work and quit. We don't make strongholds in jobs. Thus, the majority of employed women have jobs, but not careers."
Women think of jobs as temporary, said Mrs. Barrett. They do not intend to stay in their positions, although they are employed more than one-third of their lives.
As a result, women have become concentrated in the less-skilled low-paid jobs, and their salaries show it, she said.
standing women from each living group, AWS Fashion Board members. Cwens and counselors for freshman halls.
Also, next year's AWS Senate will be installed, and the AWS House of Representatives will be introduced.
IN 1963 women received 59 per cent of the salary men in comparable positions made. In 1964 women earning $10,000 or more accounted for one-half of one per cent of the female labor force.
The present situation will not improve, Mrs. Barrett said, until women decide about themselves, and find out what roles they want to play. Until this, women's ideas can't coincide with men's.
Two KU students were elected officers and a Student Labor Organization resolution was passed at the Young Democrat convention Saturday and Sunday in Parsons.
Demos back minimum wage
crats representing 18 Kansas colleges, Bob Van Cleave, Kansas City senior, said today.
Honors to be announced are:
outstanding senior woman, out-
The achievements of KU women will be recognized this evening at the Associated Women Students (AWS) Honors Night. The annual event is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
AWS to honor women
Curt Kinney, Garden City junior, was elected treasurer by about 75 Collegiate Young Demo-
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