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100 Years Ago: 1921
No less than 176 different occupations open to women, are currently featured in “Careers for Women,” edited by Catherine Filene, director of the intercollegiate Vocational Guidance Association, and recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company. A few of the occupations unusual for women are public accounting, bank, publicity, dog raising. drug growing, architecture, wood carving, bond and security saleswomanships, visiting housekeeping, politics, genealogy, pharmacy, police work, foreign-trade research and statistician. Each section of the book is written by a woman successful in the occupation, by Irene Armes, general secretary of the YWCA. of Brocton, Mass., and and “The YWCA Worker,” by Abigail T. Hawkes, cultivation secretary of the personnel bureau of the YWCA National Board.