Ladies!

[the_lady_lily]

Readers of my journal of the feminine persuasion! Are you at a loss as to what to do with your lives? Are you floundering in a sea of confusion over your job prospects?

Then fear no more! Selchow & Righter, from Bay Shore, NY, have the perfect tool to help your poor muddled brains work through the dazzling array of options available to you in the modern world - What Shall I Be? The Exciting Game of Career Girls.

This is clearly the required educational game to help you make your mind up about whether you wish to be a teacher, an actress, a nurse, a model, a ballet dancer or an airline hostess. It will also helpfully indicate to you what skills may help and hinder you on your quest towards your chosen profession. Marvellous stuff.

Apparently there is a version for chaps as well, where a young man might find his career mapped out as a statesman, scientist, athlete, doctor, engineer or astronaut. Obviously those are the only options available to the right-thinking young man of class.

I should point out this was produced in 1966, but it's still fairly fabulous in its own right, in that slightly scary 1960s way.

Comments

[aiwanakademie.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful exhibition of misogyny and patriarchal values! ;-)

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

It's fairly special, yes ;)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

When I was 17 in the year 2000, my school careers adviser suggested these options:
-Doctor
-Other medical professional
-Teacher
to my statement that I really liked science, especially PHYSICS, and wanted to be a PHYSICIST. Grrrr.

She was a physicist who had given up on grounds of "math is hard, let's go careers advising".

Grr.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Criky. My school careers advisor never really bothered with me, in fairness - mainly because I sat there and looked hard-headed at her. Or him. I can't actually remember which it was. I think it was probably a him.

That shows just how much impact that whole experience had on me, really...

I am glad you became a physicist anyway :)

[areia.livejournal.com]

Career? You think I spent all that time at a Swiss finishing school learning which fork to eat the foie gras with and how to address the Arch-Duke of Luxembourg just to waste it on gainful employment? Why, all I need to lively happily ever after is for a suitable young man from a good family to come along and buy me a mansion in a gated community.

Silly girl...

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Hee. My dad wanted me to go to a technical school and become a computer scientist. He was only calmed when I decided to get a PhD and be a professor. XD Now my sister's the one who's got to carry the "woman in science" torch.