Marriage or career? women can handle both
By MARILYN ZOOK
Women no longer have to choose between being a wife or a career woman. They can do both, according to four outstanding career women at an informal Associated Women Students (AWS) panel discussion last night.
Dr. Marilyn Stokstad, director of the Art Museum and professor of Art History; Dr. Mary Hatfield from Watkins Hospital; Mrs. Edward Smissman, lawyer; and Mrs. Allan Holder, psychiatric social worker at Watkins, discussed "The Varying Roles of the Educated Woman" with KU women.
The panel agreed that woman's basic problem is the role created for women in society, that of wife and mother. But it was quickly pointed out that women can overcome this image by pursuing her outside interests while retaining her responsibility to her home.
Men and women are exposed to the same opportunities until they finish school. Then women are expected to settle down and devote all their time to their families in order to fill their duty in life.
WOMEN TODAY should do what they really enjoy. If this involves a career then they should come to a realization within themselves that they can and should pursue it.
"It's not so much the quantity of time spent at home," said Mrs. Holder, "as the quality of the time that is important."
BEING A CAREER WOMAN can even add to being a wife, the panel said. A woman has to gain respect by doing well what she is interested in.
"When a wife works, the husband is forced to take a greater part in the family." Dr. Hatfield
said "In many cases the husband is excluded from family life because of his role in society."
However, a man must be sympathetic and understanding to his wife's career. If the husband resents or feels jealous of his wife's career, the problems can be many. A husband and wife must add to and support each others careers.
"THE MAN must be very good in his own field to live with a successful career woman," Mrs Smissman said. "If he isn't, he may very likely feel inadequate."
She also pointed out that women should not have to compete with men on the basis of sex, but there is a definite prejudice against women in almost any field.
"To many we're just second class citizens," said Mrs. Molder. "We're not taken seriously and, therefore, have to prove ourselves in situations where men are just accepted."
THE PANEL AGREED there is a feeling today that women are flighty, that they dream about careers and then settle down in whatever is convenient.
Dr. Stokstad encourages women to keep their interests going by trying as many fields as possible.
"If you have to declare a major declare it," she said. "You can always switch. Play the game the way the people insist you play it." SHE INSISTS that pressure to declare a major is one reason women choose "convenient" fields. Many women do not even think about their careers until they are in college.
Pressures to learn all they can about a particular field also forces women to choose convenient roles. Many professors do not see
the value in extra curricular activities. The attitude is that women are in school to learn all they can. But Dr. Hatfield feels that there is much to be learned from extra curricular activities.
Here a woman learns to cope with people, which is essential when a woman has to prove herself in the man's world. When a woman enters a predominantly man's field she has an advantage because she draws attention just by being a woman.
Lots of Maples
ALBANY, N.Y.—(UPI)—There are at least 19 towns, villages or cities in New York state with "Maple" preceding them. They include Maplegrove, Maplecrest, Mapview, Maplewood, Mapleton, Maple Point, Maple Springs, etc.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy to cloudy skies with warmer temperatures tonight and tomorrow, with a chance of scattered light rain tonight. Low tonight between 45 and 50 degrees.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 3, 1967
Kansans lined up for Ad Day '67
Outstanding advertising men from Kansas will be the guest speakers at the annual Alpha Delta Sigma advertising symposium, May 5, in the Kansas Union Forum room.
BOB KEARNES, advertising manager of WIBW in Topeka, will speak at 10:30 a.m. on "Prospects for Radio-TV Advertising."
Beginning at 9:30 a.m., Stan Emerson of Emerson Franzke Advertising Agency in Topeka, will speak on "Organizations of a Small Ad Agency." The Emerson Franzke agency is the largest ad agency in Topeka with annual billings of $600,000. Emerson pointed out that this is small compared to the billings of agencies in larger metropolitan areas.
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Harold Mandl, a psychologist who writes a regular column on creativity in Ad Age, will speak at 1:30 p.m. on "The Creative Games We Play." Mandl was formerly with the Menninger Foundation and now does freelance consultant work on industrial problems.
Final speaker of the day will
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be Dick Hunter, director of Associated Industries of Kansas. Hunter, a former public relations director with Kansas Power and Light, will speak on "Futures in Industrial Publications" at 2:30 p.m.
Jerry Bean, president of Alpha Delta Sigma, said that all students interested in advertising are welcome to attend. He said coffee will be served between the talks.
"We do our best to invite speakers that will interest the students and offer them something to think about.
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