The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance

by Lady Marjory MacMurchy Willison

Women and Work, by Helen M. Bennett: D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1917.

Women in Modern Industry, by B. L. Hutchins: G. Bell & Sons, London, 1915.

Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston. Reports, 1913, 1914.

Work-a-day Girl, The, by Clara E. Laughlin: Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1913.

Youth, School and Vocation, by Meyer Bloomfield: Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.

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INDEX

	page
Accompanying	92
Accounting	94
Acting	93
Advertising	90
Anaesthetist	102
Architecture	91
Art	90
Babies	84
Bank account	114
Banking	94
Bee-keeping	67
Best kind of work	138
Biography	123
Blouse making	78
Boarding house management	104
Bookbinding	90
Bookkeeping	19, 80
Book reviewing	89
Books	123
Broker	105
Business college	15
Buying a house and garden	114
Canadian Government Annuities	115
Candy making	78
Capital	65, 69
Care of children	84
Cataloguer	73
Catering business	101, 104
Changing about	96
Chemical industry	74
Children's librarian	74
Children's nurse	44
Circulation librarian	74
Citizen	135
City girl as neighbour	134
City, town and country wages and expenses
Civic duties and responsibilities	133
Civil service	19, 97
Cleanliness	118
Commercial traveller	105
Comptometer operating	19
Concert singing and playing	92
Conductor of foreign tours	105
Consulting a dentist	119
Consulting a physician	119
Cook	30
Co-operation as applied to work of home	85
Co-operative housekeeping by girls	131
Co-operative principles	86
Country girl as a neighbour	134
Country walks	120
Custom dressmaking	48
Dancing	93
Deaconess	98
Dentistry	96
Departments of Domestic Science	32
Designing	90
Designing costumes	45
Dictaphone operator	19
Dietitian	98
Difference between home and work	20
Difference between school and home	20
Division of family income	113
Domestic Science	28
Dress	17
Dressmaker	45
Dressmaking, qualifications for employment	48
Dressmaking, training	46
Dressmaking, wages	48
Dressmaking as a business	48
Dressmaking as a factory trade	48
Embroidery	90
Employment department	9, 105
Employment expert	105
Entertaining	105, 119
Estimate of yearly income	109
Examinations	35
Exercise	118
Factory employment, qualifications for	6
Factory employment, training	4
Factory employment, wages	6
Fair wage	109
Farm work for women	65
Farm managers	65
Festivals	120
"Field" work	98
Financial adviser	105
Flower growing	66
Food	25
Food demonstrator	102
Franchise	133
Fresh air	119
Friendships	27
Fruit growing	79
Getting on with fellow workers	21
Girl who really wants work	23
Girl's accounts, The	113
Girl's reading, The	121
Girls' Clubs	131
Girls with intellectual gifts	94
Going into business for one's self	99
Good Samaritan, The	135
Good thoughts	120
Good times	26, 119
Government employment bureau	2
Hairdresser	61
Hairdressing and manicuring, qualifications for employment	61
Hairdressing and manicuring, training	61
Hairdressing and manicuring, wages	62
Hairdressing and manicuring, as a business	62
Handicrafts	90
Hard work	138
Headings for girl's account book	113
Headings for private account book of business woman	113
Health	116
Health as an aid to good employment	116
Health and beauty	117
Health exercise expert	104
Helpers in finding work	2
High character of teaching as a profession	36, 38
History	123
Holidays	119
Home employments	82
Home gardens	85
Home girl's advantages	77
Home girl's allowance	77
Home maker	84
Home maker a necessary worker	127
Hotel manager, hostess, chaperone	104
House decorating	91
House employment, qualifications for	30
House employment, training	29
House employment, wages	29
House furnishing	91
House worker	28
Household accounting	83
Household expert	102
How to choose place of employment	5
Humanizing work	iv
Illustrating	90
Improving one's work	106
Incomes of professional women	97
Increasing one's wages	111
Institutional nursing	44
Insurance	94
Interests outside work	13
Investigators	105
Investing	114
Investing in an education	115
Jewelry, handwrought	90
Journalism	88
Journalist	88
Keeping other people well	82
Kindergarten	37
Knowing how to keep well	24, 82
Knowledge of nursing required by average girl	26, 83
Landscape gardening	91
Laundry work	104
Law	95
Law and social work	95
Learning after the position is found	20
Learning from others	22
Learning how to be a good neighbour	133
Learning how to work	140
Lecturer	37
Librarian	71
Library work, qualifications for employment	71
Library work, training	72
Library work, salaries	74
Life insurance	115
Limited hours for house worker	30
Living expenses	107
Living wage	107
Luxuries	127
Magazines	122
Making one's own clothes	53
Management of clubs, hotels, tea-rooms, etc.	32
Managing a tea-room business	100
Managing money	25, 83
Manicuring	62
Manicurist	61
Marketing	104
Maxwell, Sara	38
Medicine	95
Mending	25
Milliner	50
Millinery, qualifications for employment	50
Millinery, training	50
Millinery, wages	51
Millinery a seasonal trade	52
Millinery business	51
Money and wages	107
Mothers	139
Music	92
Music teaching	92
National character	136
Nature of a home based on right human relations	84
Necessaries of life	126
Necessary work	126
New employments in food, clothing, and home-making	102
New work	102
Newspapers	121
qualifications for employment	42
training	39
Nursing, salaries	43
Nurses' registries	43
Nurses' training schools	41
Office building management	105
Office employment, qualifications for	16
Office employment, training	15
Office employment, wages	17
Organization for comradeship	129
Other occupations for milliners	52
Outdoor clubs	131
Pageant mistress	105
Painting	90
Pharmacy	96
Photography	90
Piece work	7
Plan for spending	112
Poetry	123
Poultry farming	69
Preserving and canning	79
Private hospital	99
Private nursing	43
Privilege of voting	133
Probationer	41
Producer of plays	105
Proof reading	90
Proper division of family income	113
Provincial and national franchise for women in Canada	133
Public health nurses	44
Public marketing expert	104
Public stenographer	18
Publicity writer	105
Qualifications for the successful home maker	83
Qualifications that help to ensure steady employment	23
Qualities of the successful business woman	99
Questions the girl should ask herself	2
Reading circles	131
Reading on one's work	122
Real estate agents	105
Real wages	107
Recreation	26, 131
Red Cross nurses	42
Reference librarian	73
Remunerative work for the girl at home	76
Rent collecting	105
Reporting	89
Research work	96
Responsibility	99
Rest	26, 118
Richards, Mrs.	113
Righting a wrong	136
Routine work	71
Rules for reading	124
Safeguarding employment	127
St. John Ambulance	42
Saleswoman	9
Saving	112
School nurses	44
School of salesmanship	10
Seamstress	48
Second employment	128
Self-support	20, 109
Sewing by the day	48
Shopping expert	104
Skilled work	4
Social and economic questions	124
Social engagements have no claim on working hours	23
Social work	105
Special care of children	104
Special cooking	32
Spending	112
Standards of living in different employments	108
Statistician	105
Stenographer	15
Store employment, qualifications for	9
Store employment, training	10
Store employment, wages	11
Success and failure in work	139
Sunshine	119
Superintendents of training schools and hospitals	44
Taking stock of one's position	106
Taxes	134
Teachers of special subjects	37
Teaching, characteristics of girl who should become a teacher	35
Teaching, training	34
Teaching, salaries	36
Technic	138
Telegraphy, qualifications for employment	59
Telegraphy, training	59
Telegraphy, wages	60
Telephone employment qualifications for	56
Telephone employment training	56
Telephone employment wages	57
Telephone girl	56
Telephone school	56
To read well	121
Town girl as a neighbour	134
Trained nurse	39
Training for home making	83
Typist	19
Understanding each other's work	129
V.A.Ds.	42
Vocational adviser	105
Voting by women	133
Wages	107
Wages, explanation of figures quoted	3
Wages for skilled workers	107
Waitress, qualifications for employment	64
Waitress, training	63
Waitress, wages	64
Weaving	90
Welfare work	98
What every girl needs to know	24
What is harmful to health and happiness	120
What one girl can do for another	129
What the home maker needs to know	84
What wages should give	107
Woman's page	89
Wood carving	90
Work necessary to health and happiness	3
Young Women's Christian Associations	2, 11, 42, 70