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Show DESERET NEWS Working Women Of Today Thursday, August 7, 1969 By ALISON GODDARD If a womans world has radically since the biggest day, grandmas change is summed up in a single statistic: more than 15 million women over the age of 45, most of them married, are employed full time. The experts say that the accelerated pace at which women are trekking Into the to bring home labor market the bacon to the tune of $90 is without billion annually doubt the most significant indication of continuing change in womens economic role and status. Especially caught up in these shifting winds of custom are mature women, ranging in s the age from through most of the fifties. At an age when their husbands are thinking 8 bout retirement plans, they are starting a sec- -' ond career, often by taking advantage of vocational and educational opportunities. WORKING MOTHERS never done. Today, with modern equipment and gadgets, the pish of a button frees women from this drudgery. As a result, middle class women comprise the largest leisure class that has ever been known, according to Dr. Esther Westervelt, Director of .the New; York State Guidance Center for Women. Many of them would be absolutely shocked at that statement, but the fact is that they are able to fill their lives with and its empty. busy work No one need go to the supermarket daily, for instance. changed mid-fortie- As time goes on, more women will enter the labor market. Today, the trend is for young women to work, marry, resign when the first child is Mm, and resume working when the children require less care. The last time the Labor Department of all took a count, Mrs. Robert Mouritsen Laurel one-thi- Giffin rd mothers with children under 18 were working mothers. And daughters are likely to follow the lead of working mothers, according to Dr. Catherine S. Chilman, Dean of Faculty at Marylands Hood College and formerly with the Department of Healui, Education and Welfare. HIGHER EDUCATION With opportunities education, more ana more women will enter the labor field. Statistics now show that 78 to 80 per cent of women with a college education are employed. Nothing Illustrates the radi todays fer higher Joanne Kolby Miss Joanne Kolby became the bride of James Edward Becks trom In a ceremony solemnized Thursday in the Salt Lake Temple. . In rites solemnized Thursday In the Salt Lake Temple, Miss Laurel Giffin and Robert Keith Mouritsen became husband and wife. 4 ,v She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Giffin, 1896 . Lincoln Ln. ' Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mouritsen, 3932 Market St., Granger, are parents of the bridethe groom. They honored couple at a wedding breakfast at The Ming. Thursday evening the bridal pair will greet guests at a reception at Shalamar Crystal Room. Attendants will be Miss Bonnie Brinton, Miss Jill Giffin, Miss Carol Mueller, Mrs. Bart Anderson and Mrs. Gary Giffin. Larry Dille will be best - Afterward, they were honat a wedding breakfast at the by Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Warner, Fork. The brideSpanish groom Is a son of Mrs. Warner and the late Jack B. ored Chuck-A-Ram- a, Beckstrom. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Emil Kolby, 948 Atkin Ave., and the late Mr. Kolby. ' Thursday evening the newlyweds will be feted at a reception at the Lamplighter. The bride has attended BYU. Her husband is a graduate of the Provo school He has fulfilled an LDS Florida mission. cal change in a womans role as much as her entrance into the labor field. In her mothers day, a womans place was in the home. Dr. Jessie Bernard, sociologist and author, said that when she recently discussed working women with a woman In her late sixties, she found that her generation still thinks this move is questionable. Womens role on the domestic scene had changed even before they took their place In the business world. In the past, women were primarily mothers and homemakers. A womans work of washing, ironing and cooking was truly August Bride Is Entertaining at prenuptial parties have been Mrs. L. A. Kolby, Mrs. C. Ross Watson, Mrs. Thomas E. Daniels, Miss Earlene Warner, Mrs, Shirl A. Simmons, Mrs. Richard Walker, Mrs. Kenneth W. Lindsey, Mrs. Richard Halliday, Miss ADVIRTISBMSNT Claire Austin, Mrs. H. David Burton, Mrs. Glen V. Shields, Mrs. Thomas W. McMaster, Mrs. William L. Mayne, Miss Idnda ' Mayne, Mrs. James Mears, Mrs. W. Kenneth Mrs. Walter B. Mayne Inkley. ADVERTISIMINT ' Dietets Find Way to Cut Out Sugar Calories JFK PANEL Dr. Westervelt, who was a member of President Kennedys Commission on the Status of Women, said there is a popular misconception that women work to earn pin Wives money for luxuries. who work full time, on the average, contribute almost 38 per cent cl the total family income, she explained. Dr. Westervelt cited the steadily rising cost of living and improved living standards as a major reason for this change. 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