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...walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the sheltered life of the home to pursue careers in business. For all their delicate femininity - their diminutive, porcelain prettiness, their singsong voices and their flowing silk robes-they have proved to be tough businesswomen whose impact on their country has already been extensive...
Behind the surge of feminine enterprise are some powerful new social and economic forces. Most of the Thai businesswomen started with at least some inherited wealth but, like women the world over, were encouraged by education to escape the housewife's role and test themselves in man's arena. Furthermore, as living costs have risen so has the women's desire to help their husbands earn a larger share of the good life. Thai husbands, who have a strong preference for dignified but low-paying careers in civil service and law, left a vacuum in the business...
...WIFE. Her expenses-for entertainment, travel, hotels-are deductible almost every time she joins her husband for "legitimate" and "necessary" business missions, at home or away. (Husbands of businesswomen are similarly deductible...
...shape of things to come in Easter bonnets-and most other hats-is largely determined by a short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear...
Housewives and businesswomen are attending the first meetings of the 1951-52 Radcliffe seminars this week, opening the second year of Radcliffe's adult education program...