Word: wifehood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What makes his truism noteworthy is his insistence on applying it to women's education. After all, says he, 72% of all women ultimately marry. As president of Missouri's Stephens College (for women), Dr. Wood has trained 2,000 young women in the arts & sciences of wifehood, motherhood and homemaking. Even the college's psychology, literature and economics courses are, as he says, "geared . . . to its homemaking objective." He seems to be on the right track, for at last count 85% of the Stephens "Susies" land a man within five years of graduation...