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First She's A Coed What Happens Then?
(The second of a three part series)
B by Patti Behen
The woman plays the role of the college coed only four years of her life. What then?
What of the future that awaits her? She is a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior and perhaps she does some graduate study.
Kate Hevner Mueller, professor of education at Indiana University, says. "Fortunate indeed is the college woman of the 1960 decade of our American society."
GRADUATION comes and the future begins to take on the cloak of the present. Will it be marriage? A career? Or perhaps it will be both
"She will undoubtedly at some time have a job in the outside world, but she will also have a home and family life with children," she says.
Donald R. Brown, professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College, in his essay "College and Value-Conflict," tells us that most colleges "manage to instill considerable feelings of obligation on the part of the intelligent and educated woman to contribute something from and of herself to society beyond her child-bearing years."
"She will earn a large salary and pay high taxes. She will be listening when the midnight carillons ring in the new century. She may even help her daughter plan a Junior Year on the moon."
YET THE college woman will also work hard. She will have problems, anxieties, decisions, competition and disappointments, just as all her ancestors and contemporaries had had
"The educated woman then faces a society that leads her to flee into early marriage to prove her womanhood and at the same time surrounds her with 'labor-saving' devices which give her just enough free time to feel guilty about her 'wasted education.'" says Prof. Brown.
If the college woman receives a really successful education, she will be quite capable of seeing the problem not as a personal failing, but as a social dilemma.
CURRENT LABOR statistics indicate that more than half of our educated women will be working outside the home in the future. It is anticipated that in 1970 40 per cent of all women will be working.
Laurine E. Fitzgerald, speaking at the 1963 convention of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students, said that three out of four college women of today can anticipate working 30 or more years after
The trend toward part and full-time employment of women shows increasing recognition of the womanpower in the economy of the nation
graduation, at least on a part-time basis.
In the 1920s, when few women were ever likely to work, a "career woman" averaged 11 years of employment. Today, more and more women enter industry.
"WOMEN OWN 47 PER CENT of all the stock of our railroads," says Starr, "and are said to own two-thirds of the wealth of the country, although men still manage and control it."
Mark Starr, in his book "Labor Looks at Education," says that "few people appreciate how important woman's position has become in industry."
Prof. Fitzgerald pointed out an interesting sidelight.
"Only a small percentage of women use their education in their employment, other than nurses, social workers, and teachers," she said.
Is a college education wasted on the woman who chooses marriage and decides against working? Everyone has heard the too-frequent response of the woman who says, "I'm only a housewife."
Phyllis McGinley, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, argues the case in an article written for the Ladies' Home Journal.
"To assert that housewives have no right to the simple joys of knowing is to denigrate everything best in civilization," said Mrs. McGinley
SHE SAID THAT the housewife with a college education "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems with him more helpfully, entertain her children more amusingly."
Surely higher education is wasted on no one. Whatever the college woman decides to do with her life, she will always see the benefits of her college years. Six decades of life await her after graduation.
At 20, the beginning of her third decade of life, the modern woman is married or on the verge of marriage.
"For the most part," Prof. Mueller tells us, "she will spend this decade having two or three or four children. This will be her station wagon decade, the suburban, cook-out, teeth-straightening, mortgage-making era."
crises wane. At 30, even at 35, a woman has more life ahead of her than behind her, three or four full decades to go."
"It is an era too for emotional strain and personality reorganizing. In her fourth decade, emotional
OF COURSE there are many possible variations to this sequence.
There is the "professional volunteer," the career woman, and the young woman who deliberately postpones her earning career until after some family experience.
"Finally," says Prof. Mueller "there is the highly motivated student who maintains a continuous but perhaps slower career in a chosen profession with full family experience at the same time."
The woman who wishes to be the "working wife" after college faces the more difficult problems. She must learn to combine the roles of homemaker, wife, and mother with that of the career woman.
'Minutemen' Leader To Discuss Vigilance
Robert Bolivar De Pugh, national coordinator of the organization "Minutemen," will address the SUA Minority Opinion Forum at 4:30 p.m., tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union
De Pugh will speak on the need for the "Minutenem" in America to guard against Communist infiltration and occupation.
The organization is secret and is made up of U.S. civilians. It was denounced as an extremist group in 1961 by President Kennedy.
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Applications Ready For Jayhawker Posts
Applications for editor and business manager of the 1964 Jayhawker are due Wednesday, April 24.
Applications should be sent to Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance and chairman of the Jayhawker advisory board, 223 Strong Hall.
Three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from a former employer, should accompany the application.
J-School Juniors Receive Awards
Two students from the KU School of Journalism have been awarded $200 scholarships by the Kansas City Press Club.
Russell Corbitt, Chanute junior, and Ralph Gage, Ottawa junior, were selected for the awards. Both are news-editorial majors in journalism.
The scholarships will be effective the fall semester in September
FOUR OTHER scholarships were given by the press club, two each to journalism students from Kansas State University and the University of Missouri.
The awards, presented by the club's scholarship committee, are drawn from a fund formed by the proceeds of the annual "Griddle Show" in Kansas City.
Breon Mitchell Named New SUA President
Breon Mitchell, Salina junior, was selected president of Student Union Activities by the Union Operating Board.
Others selected by the board are Bob Moutrie, St. Louis, Mo., junior, vice-president; Mary Morozzo, Council Grove sonhomore, secretary, and Scott Linscott, Topea sophomore, treasurer.
The present SUA Board chose the rest of the board to serve during the 1953-64 term.
The new members are Marcia Cowles, St. Joseph, Mo., junior; Joe McGrath, Prairie Village junior; Nancy Partin, Prairie Village junior; Margaret Harris, Leawood junior; David Smith, Jackson, Mich., junior; Gene LaFollette, Overland Park sophomore; John Mays, Lyons freshman, and Peggy Carroll, Prairie Village junior.
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"Minority Opinion"
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