Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN [ARTICLE]

NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN

They Are Miking Marked Success as Secretaries and Earn Very Good. Salaries. Evidence of rapid strides toward the creation of a new profession offering a good field for women is set forth in an article in the New York Evening Post by Raymond G. Fuller, director of the secretarial department of the Russell Sage College of Practical Arts at Troy, N. He points out that government and the -reports of such organizations as the international bureau of occupations. New York; the Women’s Educational und Industrial Union of Boston, and the bureau of occupatlons for trained women of Philadelphia show that secretarial work is “becoming one of the most attractive avenue? of vocational choice- trmoiTg- college women.” He states that Simmons college in Boston is the only institution of collegiate standing which offers a complete seeretariaL cuurse, and that

the demand for its graduates is so great that other colleges are rapidly falling in line. /InNew York salaries begin at from sl2 to sls a week, increase to from S9OO to SI,OOO a year at the end of two years, and to from $1,500 to SI,BOO a year within another year or two, or as soon as the secretary has definitely lifted herself from the stenographerclass and shown real interest In the affairs of her employer,' ability to grasp and attend to them without Belay and has developed a certain degree of judgment. Twenty per cent of the graduates of the secretarial department of Simmons go into business occupations, 10 to 15 per cent become teachers, and the rest find employment with lawyers, professors, doctors and other individuals, and clubs, settlement houses, colleges, etc. A recent survey of 800 college women in secretarial Vd'sitlons sho wed'3o percehtconnected with suffrage, social and religious organizations; 14 per cent employed by schools and colleges; 8 per cent by public officials; 7 per cent by business firms and banks; 7 per cent by lawyers, and 6 per cent by doctors.