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changing attitude toward early marriage, as well as toward
the employment of married women, calls for continuing investigation
of it.
29. Several conferees commented on the changing pattern
among women college students today, who no longer see marriage
G.
and a career as alternatives between which they must choose.
The change was seen as affecting a whole series of choices
1
EIGHT
which, in the past, a girl usually had to make, i.e., between
getting married or going to college; between work and marriage;
between having children or a career; between remaining permanently
in the labor force and permanent withdrawal. It was noted
that in the concentration of the women college student today
on the combination of marriage and work, the idea of "a career"
has been downgraded to "a job" in which a minimum investment
will be made for maximum financial return. The objective now
is practical, temporary employment to supplement the new family's
income, and this objective frequently becomes clear only about
six months before graduation.
30. This changing pattern, it was observed, is creating new
problems in motivating college women to think in long-range
terms in planning and completing their college program so that
it will assist them in (a) their immediate job interests;
(b) their homemaking role; (c) their service to the community;
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