| Show I WOMAN EXECUTIVE REBELS I I 1 AGAINST HOLDING A JOB I The first Important women ex executive to r revolt volt publicly against the fetish of the job and to decide that her place is In the home gives her reason reason rea rca son for tor backsliding In Harpers She writes write anonymously but the magazine states that tha she has been the editor of a magazine and and anel has been prominently connected with a national w welfare organization org A few tew months ago I threw off orr the burden of a lie He with which I have struggled for tor fifteen years a alie alie lie which kept me spiritually a coward o although I outwardly I am at ama ata a glossy y successful sf f b business w wo man That lie is the myth of The Job I It does not take courage Independence independence inde lade daring initiative to hold holda a job It takes tact obedience subservience subtlety shrewdness intrigue Intrigue even even servility I have had my lessons in job holdIng holding holding hold hold- ing and in being a boss By chance I once read a note rc returned urn d to my my office ottice for tor want of a clear address It was written by a member of oP my staff start and from it I learned that I had the n of being a a. martinet martinet martinet mar mar- and a gruff and brutal ty tyrant ty- ty ran rant t I have come to realize a great part of that must have been true true true-It it Is still true when at times thues I 1 put myself in the perilous position position position po po- po- po of directing others Having been an executive at an early age I Iwas Iwas Iwas was necessarily in the right What is the use of taking such sucha a a. wa way of life lite too 00 seriously Here I Iam Iam am 37 years old and as soon as I have given up my ray job my soda social importance drops from me Here I am wanting to know how to embroider embroider em em- broider and how to dance the Charleston and how to be a charm charm- charming ing home woman and the t fact ct that I have had the biggest Jobs won wont won't t help me Women omen have sighed with envy when talking Calking to me Women Women Wo Wo- men with may be more in interesting interesting in- in than women who are Just lust lilies of the field but that is be beI be- be I cause in any situation in life lite th they would be alert and eager It If you work as long as I 1 have done you ou get to the place where it holds no false thrills for tor you ou I to change places with my housekeeper I like my children to be with me all day instead of with her I Ilk Uk eto etc be the one to take walks with them ithem to read to them I 1 like Ilka to cook and sew and to be and leisurely Why are we girls Into Jobs teaching every cry one of ot them a Job or trade no matter how much money they have Is 18 it because we have lost the art of or leisure Is l It because the pace Isso is ia isso so fast that it has withered tire this amateurs amateur's attitude out of ot the women women women wo wo- wo- wo men too too Are women to foi- foi forget et how to s spend nd their lIv lives s valuing things that have no monety tag Enjoyment of life Is 19 the end end- of r U life n not enjoyment n of a Job Even Jor In the c Christian philosophy the Mal Mails the life life-elvers the charming delightful women were vere given precedence over Che he ers era and if IC you hol hold Jobs long enough youre you're apt to become a pretty pretty pret pret- t ty dull girl lrI Indeed knowing one ope thing only with few accomplishments accomplish accomplish- ments with few delightful ways ways-of j Just st being alive taking things s too seriously budgeting ou out all lie lie he things which cant can't be systematized and analyzed and accounted d for We e women omen mustn't take jobs so 80 seri serl- We e have got to admit that it i itis is really leally mo mOle moie e important to live out life with the dignity the a ac acceptance and the fullness of ot MI- MI mals than han It Is to hold the best Job JobIn jobIn jobin In the world We wi have 0 got to anit ad admit a- a aa- aa mit nit in our eed ee-d ee of success that Jt it itis is more important to be a lovely ove brave and human being bains than It is to hold HOd the biggert Jun Jon Jonor junor or to make the most money in all the world I cannot do that and hold a Job so I have had to give up the Job |
