and spicing
fruits. In hotels, there are women managers, chaperones, hostesses and
matrons. The old-fashioned boarding house is still a useful institution,
and the girl who will undertake to keep house for a group of professional
women on a co-operative plan is a modern worker likely to find remunerative
employment. Any woman who has the capital to establish a well-arranged,
well-organized home where expensive, high-class board may be obtained, in
a city, or in the neighbourhood of a university, is certain to attract as
many clients as she can accommodate.
Clothing and house furnishing offer fields of new work for women.
The expert shopper in these departments is already in demand. An adviser
in dress for women has made her appearance as a paid worker. Many women
could save time, trouble and money if they could go to an expert for
consultation about their clothes. A girl who is a specially good shopper
should be able to build up a business among her friends.
Some women have made a success of high class laundry work. Girls who will
undertake fine washing and mending of delicate fabrics are in demand.
There is a greater need for the expert who will take classes in health
exercises for women. Teachers trained in the Swedish gymnasium system are
likely to find employment. Others are required for children who need
special care. Courses of training are already planned for teachers of
this description, and the occupation is likely to develop considerably.
Social work is constantly requiring helpers in new departments.
Investigators, secretaries, statisticians, lecturers, health workers of
various kinds, are employed by social organizations. Welfare workers have
made their appearance in factories. Employment departments of factories
and shops are offering work to the woman who is an expert in employment.
Others are in the service of civic and government employment bureaus.
The vocational adviser is to be found in colleges and is employed by
organizations of a benevolent character.
Rent collecting as an occupation for women was begun in Great Britain by
Miss Octavia Hill. A woman in this country with capital invested in an
office building, who has had business experience, manages her own building
and collects the rents. Other women are employed as managers and agents
for apartment houses. The real estate business has been entered by women
who sell real estate, and accompany prospective tenants to houses and
apartments. Oth
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