Panels spotlight women's problems
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PANEL MEMBERS AT HASHINGER HALL
Alumnae discuss career and family conflicts in conjunction with All Women's Week program.
For the modern woman greatest challenge ever
By Joyce Grist
Four outstanding KU women alumnae met last night in Miller Hall to discuss "The Mop and the Mind" as a part of this year's All Women's Week activities.
Sponsored by Mortar Board, the four women participated in a panel discussion and answered questions from the audience. Panel participants were Miss Maud Ellsworth, sister of Fred Ellsworth, former Alumni Association secretary, and herself a former KU faculty member; Miss Jean Stouffer, dean of women at Fort Hays State College; Mrs. Hugh Randall, writer and housewife; and Mrs. J. Woodson Rollins, a housewife and president of Hazelle, Inc., puppet manufacturers.
THE TOPICS of college and career, family and career, and women in society were discussed by the panel.
Considering current challenges to women, Miss Ellsworth said, "The way we are living now offers women the greatest challenge they have ever had."
Continuing, Miss Ellsworth said, "The emotional strain of deciding between a career and a family or deciding to combine both is particularly hard on women. Trying to live two lives is particularly difficult and leaves little time for needed quiet and meditation. In the teaching profession, I think, the biggest challenge is making people want to learn, not imparting knowledge."
"THERE IS A challenge wherever you are and whatever you are doing when you get out of college," said Mrs. Randall. "It's a scary feeling that first September when the school bell rings and it isn't ringing for you."
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Miss Stouffer said, "We have an obligation to get to know people different than ourselves, and this has its start in college. When you get out of college, I agree with the philosophy that service is the rent you pay for the space you occupy on this earth."
MOVING TO A discussion of college and career, Miss Stouffer said, "You're lucky if you know exactly what you want to do in life, but you have an opportunity to use almost anything you learn in college in a career. It's important to be interested in a variety of things. What you major in or start out working in is not always what you end up doing. However, you will always be a homemaker, even if you pursue a career."
"A community is only as good as you make it when you live there," said Mrs. Rollins.
Discussing family and career, Mrs. Randall said, "Writing is easier to mix with a family than most careers. You can think whenever you want to think."
Mrs. Rollsins said, "It's important not to neglect your children
while pursuing a career. Creative thinking can be done while performing routine chores."
WOMEN IN SOCIETY was the final topic discussed by the panel. Mrs. Rollins stressed the importance of voting and taking an active part in politics.
"I am concerned with the creeping conformity in politics today. People want to be alike. Be yourself, find your own personality and stand up for it. Living is an art and there are two sides to doing anything, a pleasurable and creative side, a drudgery side."
Miss Beatrice L. Jacquart, a member of the governor's commission on the status of women, said, "I have never felt the need to investigate status. Teamwork, regardless of sex should get things done. I think women are getting along all right as they are now."
Commenting on women in the business world, the panel said that women make their own image in the working world and they should retain their women's outlook in whatever they do. "Also, be proud of whatever you do," said Miss Ellsworth.
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The greatest challenge for a woman is to do what she is really interested in, not what society expects from her, said Dr. Helen Gillis, participating in a panel discussion of homemaking and careers in Hashinger Hall last night.
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Four KU alums who have pursued careers participated in the discussion of the "Mop and the Mind, the Great Compromise," sponsored by Mortar Board.
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THESE WHO participated were: Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo, director of library services with the Kansas State Teachers Association and a children's book specialist; Miss Gussie Gaskill, curator of the Chinese library at Cornell until 1963; Mrs. Virginia Nelson, a consultant for mentally retarded children from age 16 to 18 years; and Dr. Helen Gillis, a Lawrence pediatrician.
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"You will have to decide what you want, then pick a man who will be sympathetic. I don't see why women can't plan for careers as realistically as men." Miss Gussie Gaskill said.
Dr. Gillis said that the most important thing is "your husband's attitude. I've always felt that panels like this are misdirected—they should be for the men. It's more difficult to convince them that their home life can benefit from it."
"I WENT TO WORK soon after our first child was born. I realized that since I had so much invested in my education I wouldn't have been as happy as a mother and a homemaker if I hadn't. It also makes a difference whether you work full or part time," she said.
"It isn't so much the amount of time parents spend with their children as the relationship they have. It's the quality rather than the quantity," she said.
Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo said that she found that her children had "profited." She said they were
THE WOMEN agreed that a woman should adjust her career to her husband's. Dr. Gillis said that the woman will "always find something by which she can benefit herself and her community wherever she is."
In the biring of women for a job, Mrs. Virginia Nelson, a 1944 graduate in social work, said that "many men have a great deal of fear that women are emotional on the job. We have to prove that we are not necessarily that emotional."
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"Most employers are looking for someone who is imaginative, who will stick to the job, who can be adaptable. This goes for good homemaking, too," said Mrs. Nelson.
THEY FELT that there was still prejudice against women in the fields of business and law. Here the woman's challenge is to be accepted, said Mrs. Gillis.
"It's hard to say that women are not more emotional, but by and large I think that women tend to be more subjective in their relationships," said Mrs. Gagliardo.
"Another creative aspect is bringing up children. Each age brings new challenges, and women should never forget their responsibility to their families," said Mrs. Gillis.
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