The Woman Administrator in the Modern Home

and industry and have much the same meaning in this new relationship. The well-ordered home of today, like other efficient enterprises, is run according to accepted principles of good management, even though the objectives for homemaking are human satisfactions and development, rather than increased production or sales. The products of industry are material goods and it has developed highly specialized managerial responsibilities in the utilization of efficiency methods for mass productions. Homemaking has no such clear-cut division of labor and it has remained, for the majority, a composite occupation, where the homemaker is both a worker and a manager, planning the daily routine and carrying out these plans. Her duties as administrator are equally as important, however, whether they include directing herself as worker, or planning and supervising the work of someone else detailed to do it. Although this discussion concerns itself with the woman administrator and not the woman as worker, the two types of responsibilities should be recognized and differentiated. All efficient work is the result of careful

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  Laurel D Graham•Signs: Journal of Women in…•1999

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