Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 26

B 10 THE SUNDAY STAR, W'A'SHINGTON. D. C., FEBRUARY o, 1930—PART ONE. WINES MUST WORY REPORT DECLARES “Frills and Laces” Desire Theory Is Exploded by Statistics. Why do married women work? For 3Tils and laces, radios and what-not? Or from dire necessity? “Necessity,” replies Miss Mary An- derson of the Women's Bureau of the ! Department of Labor, and produces an | interesting array of statistics to back up her statement, the result of a report on the most recent study of the subject made by her bureau. H “Approximately nine-tenths of the | women who work outside their homes | do so because they need to, if a close- up study of a small group of Denver women, made by Miss Emily C. Brown of the Women's Bureau, can be tasen as a typical cross-section of the prob- lems of marricd woman workers,” says Miss Anderson. commenting upon the report. “Miss Brown’s report, just issued, was collected in two studies and covers a total of about 450 women who were or had been married and who applied for jobs during the Spring and Sum- mer months of 1928 to the Young Women's Christian Association and a department store in Denver, Miss An- derson explains. “It deals a staggering blow to public opinion which vocifer- ously claims that women with husbands to support them are taking jobs right and left from single women in need of work. “Miss Brown's report shows, on the contrary, that discrimination against married women on this score may be wholly unjust and work hardship to the majority of married women seeking Jjobs, since two-thirds of the women in- cluded in her investigation stated that they were without a husband’s support. In such cases the husband was re- ported as deag, ill. physically incapaci- tated, unemployed and, in four in- stances, in prison, or the wife was sbpa- rated, divorced or deserted.” The married women constituted 45.5 per cent of the women reporting on ‘marital status; the separated, deserted and divorced 28 per cent, and the ‘widowed 26.5 per cent. ~Of the women whose husbands con- tributed to their support almost three- fourths stated that they were applying for work from economic necessity, a number stating that the husband’s earnings were irregular or inadequate for the family needs. A few of these were seeking work in order to help their husbands in financial emergencies and one worked to help support her parents. “More than two-fifths of the women whose source of income was ascer-|R tained had none except their own earn- ings. In some cases contributions from sons and daughters, house or room rent, alimony and insurance were given as other sources of income. Y. W. C. A. 299 repo: on the hus- band’s support. One-half of the 221 women who were without such support | N had children under 16 years of age, | N nearly a fifth having two or more chil- dren. Less than 40 per cent of the widows, but over 60 per cent of the ‘women uxhgu x‘-’u"}‘ih':xdf ‘were %\;::;ed. separa leserting, ill, unemp) or in prison’ had children under 16. In 2 22222222227 e Y/ \ the case of those who received some ! N\ rt from their husbands 45 per | N suppo: cent had young children.” Married women were not in the ma- jority of the total number seeking em- vloyment, however, Miss Anderson’s re- port on Miss Brown’s survey concludes. “Of the total number of woman ap- plicants those who were or had been marriea constituted about 3314 per cent. Jobs were obtained by 36 per cent of the ‘g::u'om applying. How the rest married, widowed, separated, & of divorced women in need of wages met the economic problems which drove “%iem to ask for work was unanswerable | from the agencies’ records.” i ‘This study, in Miss Brown's opinion, is an fllustratidbn of the type of in- vestigation that can be made with profit | by similar agencies in a community often with comparatively little change in the kind of record ordinarily kept | for handling their own business. | “In these times, in which the num- bers of married women who are em- | Ployed outside thelr homes have in- | N creased so_strikingly, each bit of evi- dence on the forces behind this phe- | nomenon is valuable,” said Miss Brown in submitting her report. “When such data have been obtained by agencies in many communities a valuable con- tribution will be made toward building up a body of knowledge upon the rea- sons why married women seek employ- ment and toward the answering of this social question in a manner beyond the realm of speculation.” BEN-AMI TO SPEAK AT CENTER TONIGHT Authority on Drama to Be Heard at Jewish Community Forum. 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