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Women’s career conference highlights wartime opportunities
Delegates from Barnard and other colleges heard talks on vocational avenues for college women, emphasizing mathematics, chemistry, and liberal education. Speakers described modern employment management, the need for intelligent store and banking roles, and the expanding women’s presence in science and industry during and after the war. Dorothy Butler reports from the conference in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briggs
Emma P. Hirth
United States Employment Service
State of
New York
Hirth
Lucina O. Prince
Prince School of Education
Boston
Prince
Howard Birch
Old Colony Trust Co
Mass
Theodore William Richards
Richards
Ewing
Harvard University
Barnard
New York City
Dean Beady
Radcliffe College
James P. Munroe
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Washington, D. C
Eliot
Harvard
Beady
Radcliffe
Dorothy Butler