Whether or not a woman has a "career," surely the vast majority of American women do not believe that woman's place is solely in the home. Equally surely the vast majority of American women want a home, a husband, and children. This book is concerned with ways and means of keeping the home and letting the female as well as the male get away from it from time to time.
Although this book was written in wartime, whether or not it is read before or after a peace is declared, is of little importance. You will see as I report that the behaviour of most of the workers in the airplane engine plant and of the various types of men and women in other kinds of work in war time, has not changed very radically from what it was before the war. The basic problems of women have not changed at all.
One of the works from Elizabeth Hawes (1903-1971), an American designer of inventive clothing, outspoken critic of the fashion industry and a fashion writer whose analytic prose still illuminates the world of Seventh Avenue. Published in 1943.