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Caption: SWE - Proceedings of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
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employment of professional married women much less difficult. In addition there is the problem with both sexes of the choice of pure science or applied science and engineering as a career. In some countries, particularly U.K., the status of the scientist is high, while the engineer, who can be trained either in the University or by part-time study while working, has a lower status so that able young people who can choose take up pure science with a hope of entering the research field leaving the less able to engineering. This needs combatting vigorously since industry needs the most able brains. One excellent weapon would be a large increase in pay for graduate engineers and the better use of engineers including the provision of sufficient assistance at technician level. Another would be a greater spread of information to young people in schools on the fascinating work done in technology. The educator in planning his work to be of most help for the future must consider now the future pattern of the lives of both men and women. Automation of industry and commerce means that life will be divided into short intense periods of activity for which intense specialized training will be required and longer periods of leisure which, if they are not to be complete blanks, causing frustration and conflict, must be the goal of the general education program mentioned earlier. A further consideration must be how to keep the practicing technologist up to date in his chosen subject and its allied fields. Here, the educator must provide refresher courses and the industrialists must face the need to give leave of absence for study. These courses can also include those women returning to work after absence from their professional work spent in raising a family. VI-4
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