Show Women Have Right To Be Adult I BY FRIEDA KAYE When a woman comes from a family of isn't expected to achieve herself she's a in a says Drinker from her own Ballard decided belatedly to accomplish something on her own and She now heads the Pennsylvania Horticultural the largest organization of its-kind in the I was growing Ballard aspirations for girls were never Her mother was a volunteer with all sorts of social and cultural her father was successful lawyer who worked hard and never BUT HE maintained that didn't have men's brains and were not capable of men's He she that were meant to be lovable and but not much From her father's side of the she feels she inherited her capacity for hard the ability to-make up her mind and a good feeling for At Ballard attended the fashionable boarding her mother At she made her did volunteer married a young lawyer and subsequently had four It wasn't until she reached her that she decided to have her coming as she calls WANTED to achieve an identity as a capable person in my own she wanted to make the change from housewife to I wanted a paying job because 1 felt that earning money was a tangible form of an indication of one's Ballard trained in realizing that although many women are involved in garden club few specialized professionally in this Six weeks after beginning her she became quite SINCE HER doctor could find no physical basis for her symptoms-which included a severe difficulty in swallow-ing-he suggested therapeutic discovered that the process of preparing for independence was the cause of my she had apparently resented my father's refusal to appreciate what a woman could do on her but I felt selfish and guilty at the same time for not choosing to be the kind of woman he wanted me to ONCE she could acknowledge this conflict within she was able to return to school and complete her In addition to her administrative responsibilities with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Ballard writes and lectures extensively on horticulture and travels frequently to meetings throughout the She sees her accomplishments as demonstrating to other women what can be done if they set their vocational sights TWO obstacles women will have to she are the limitations they impose on themselves by that they can't and the fact that at the top are not eager to give women an equal When she took on her executive she points were serious salary because I was a woman-but not FOR THE married woman who wants to get accepting husband is Ballard Her husband shares her interests and doesn't get bored with her professional she says with a believes that women have as much right as men to become adult human |