The uniformed girl pages in large banks in New York [as in Chicago]. . . . hatless, hairbowed girls on the subway . . . . the young Vermont twins—country school marms—waiting on table at a Green mountain resort, bright as a new dollar . . . . the woman bank employé from Jersey City remarking that never before have women had such an opportunity to study finance as thru the timely courses of the American Institute of Banking [there are more than 11,000 women members of the institute] — she doesn’t agree there are no careers for women in banking.
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