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Northeastern to Aid Women Find Spot in Man's World

ing modern analytical methods By IAN FORMAN ting many phone calls from gramming area." industry, asking, "Can't you Wallace, with whom Mrs. to interpolating data and inWhat is a woman's place in formation gathered in induswhat still is—let's face it—a send us an older woman who Beall has consulted, says wom- trial experimentation. can help run our office as an en have qualities which often man's world? "A women who successfully This question has been get- executive secretary or admin- make them superior to men in completes this course is in a istrative assistant." programming. ting a lot of extra attention position to assist scientific rerecently, especially with new Mrs. Beall feels that for too long, secretaries have been con"Their attention to detail in search men with data," says programs for "mature" womMrs. Beall. en in local colleges, universi- sidered as mere clerical help, programming, where no step Other courses will be added but now there is an opportunity can be left out, makes them ties and adult education profor such women office workers better. Their power of con- as the program proceeds. grams. to move up and assist with centration, especially in detail 350 Ask Information work, is greater. Now Northeastern Univer- administration. Mrs. Beall says she has al"Several women from our sity announces a new propilot course are now writing "Programming can be very ready had some 350 inquiries grain it has been testing for policy letters and communica- complex a n d sophisticated from interested women. At nearly a year. • nearly tions for their firms, something work. Many electronics firms presenta r e i n h e 200 women's have" numerous" women" n o w y n a m e s r "active" file All these new programs— which neither they nor their from girls just out of college awaiting the availability of cerconsidered before—and at Radcliffe, Brandeis, B.U., bosseslike'it.' tain with math majors, to o l d e r courses. A guidancejproHarvard and so on—have their both She points out that many ex women, perhaps whose chil- g r a m l s a l s o b e i n 8 developed, particular bent and thus, for tunately, complement e a c h ecutives prefer mature women dren are grown, who have Northeastern is also inangv other rather than compete. ,who would not be leaving any math and science backgrounds urating next Fall two prom nth r y r from college," he said. Northeastern's is aimed at ° n ° + f 1° * * married, grams designed to encourage putting women-"mature" or ° n „ twh e ont h e r hand she says, In his firm, Wallace said, mature women to enter or u m career or young or graduating y ° « ° ? > especially bright women hold such positions as reenter the teaching profesfrom rearing children-into o n e s w h o h a v e n o t c o m e o u t manager of scientific program sion. ming, technical assistant to the niches of industry or the prodirector of marketing and techfessions where they're badly nical assistant to the branch An undergraduate program: needed. manager (she holds a PhD in will be offered in a special Unlike Raddiffe's, which is pilot course to adult women, math). primarily scholarly, this prowho have the background" 61 gram wants to give top execuThe two Northeastern; at least two years of college. tives more able "girl Fridays" courses given so far include] Women taking the course, to to handle data processing tech"Effective Writing for Busi-I be given in Northeastern's Colniques—a hot field in which ness," designed especially for! lege of Education, will be able there is a shortage of help, esadministrative secretaries who to arrange their courses on a pecially up and down on the have responsibilities for busi- flexible basis to fit in with famRte. 128 netwprk of firms. ness communications. ily requirements. Northeastern's program is Also, "Procedures and Meth- A similar program in the; called the Continuing Educaods in Mathematical Statistics"; Graduate School of Education tion Program for Women. is offered women with a col- will prepare former teachers Under the direction of Mrs. lege-level mathematical back- for re-entry into the profession. Ethel Y. Beall, program coordinator, three Greater Boston housewives and eight career women have already completed a "pilot" program under Mrs. Beall. Starts In April MRS. ETHEL BEALL The first official course will "Great Opportunities" begin in early April, running 10 weeks on a one-evening-a- of high school well prepared, week, 2%-hour basis for the may easily find a good career convenience of both housewives in the expanding data procesand women already working. sing field with some additional Northeastern has taken a training. poll along Rte. 128 which defi- At the same time, young nitely shows a great need for women college graduates, who mature women as administra- have mathematics backgrounds tive assistants, and younger (even up to PhD's), can do women for data processing. even better in this area. "I don't feel that women should compete with men in Cites Opportunities industry and the professions," Harold Wallace, director of says Mrs. Beall, "but there education f o r Minneapolisare growing areas where Honeywell Regulator Co.'s women, especially mature electronic data processing diwomen, are needed and want- vision in Wellesley, confirms what he calls "the very great ed." opportunity for women in dat^ She says she is already get- processing, especially the pro-

C A R E E R W O M A N moves ahead. After taking Northeastern's course for m a t u r e women on "effective writing for business," Miriam L. Campbell, coordinator of school recruitment at John Hancock Life Insurance Co., has taken active part in writing comp a n y reports and other business communications.

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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE—MARCH 11, 1962