Show Women And Education Climate Of An outstanding American more notable because she a native will speak on the campus sponsored by Faculty Women of the Esther Peterson has been active for VI years in education and the labor movement and is now assistant secretary of but information on labor is not the Faculty Women's main purpose in bringing her Peterson will make her visit just three weeks after the first meeting of President Kennedy's newly established the Status of It is with this stains of especially college that Petersons sponsors are and they are bringing her here as example of a woman who has managed to be a successful wife and mother and still provide an intellectual challenge to herself and an outstanding contribution to Wanda C. president of the Faculty has stated the basic question which will be posed lo can we make more effective use of feminine The concern is not only how this may be a boon to but to the woman College girls are involved in a situation of formal education where they may never find themselves but the college years are not seen as a potential basis for a rewarding intellectual life during the decades It is hard for girls in college to look realistically beyond the next ten years and to see themselves as anything but young wives and Those years will be busy ones with perhaps little time for other Rut the average woman's life expectancy after her youngest child reaches maturity is now 30 What is to be done with those 30 years if education has provided no stimulation toward goals other than those of the In a recent article in Time Mary I. president of Radcliffe attributed the lack of such a basis to the fact that American girls grow up in a of They are willing to be she but are by hidden that they will not really use their A college girl eventually should have marriage and a Bunting but she must not accept the idea that to be married is to be satisfied with She must also find what Bunting calls the thing that's most having something awfully interesting that you want to work on awfully Peterson is an example of a woman who has found awfully to her and has put it to use as a complement lo being a successful wife and She is one because of preparation and interest in life beyond her own is not spending those 30 years feeling that her usefulness is over and that she is no longer Her example is one which college girls should think seriously about and prepare to |