European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Women the changelings by Georgia du1xea new York tires writer and Enrols in Law Rosemary already a begins studying for a degree in social work Margaret former aerospace decides to be a Carol Reich turns from Interior design to child it women in their women who have achieved and financial Security in one arc making midlife career switches much As men were a decade my husband Calls me flip Chang Ling says an investment Bank ers wife and the Mother of he bought one he got not Long ago Carol Reich was dreaming up color schemes for clients and using mile of my own Gray doing interiors was not it paid by her doctoral studies at City University graduate Center in new York so demanding that Reich recently hired a decorator to do the family new Manhattan her Only worry is where to stash her Box of White lab int that awful Reich says with a laugh sounding not at Alt nervous about launching a second career at women Seldom Are nervous Nowa unlike the men of the late 60s who hopped off be corporate tread Mill to make grow vegetables or otherwise fulfil themselves in times of social these women of the More sober 70s Are entering or re entering the country professional moving deeper and deeper into the rather than dropping its like dropping in to where the system says Renata adding that her presence at Law school was a natural develop ment in her writing not a career to be the older female student is a rarity in most professional and graduate rarer still is the one who arrives to retool Tor a second Pale Columbia University business professor and author of changing Careen Afler Calls it until he the pattern has been one of women careers in i dont know of any formal studies of women changing but Ive seen signs this past year suggesting that some thing is going Cistand sees a number of things going on younger roughly aged 30 and typically titled administrative Are being sent to graduate schools Liy their who Are being pressured by the government to hire More female once in he the management Stu dents Eye May stray to other Inch As marketing and result ing in some turmoil and changing i other professional women Are opting Lor what Hiestand terms a moving into new but related fur the Public health nurse who becomes a social 0 still Small in numbers and Strong in seem to be making the unusual a Mcgrew turn that sends them into whole new proves each year were going to see More women changing Hiestand either because the Field changes and its no longer interesting or because the women change and there no longer inter such talk runs counter to the popu Lar image of women As poor Are Ftp least a few professional women Dow ready to make career among the theories being bandied none of them backed by what social scientists Call hard data Are these maybe women Are living out original dreams of careers denied them before the women the move tonal maybe the divorce rate has prompted working wives to pre pare for More lucrative careers maybe its old midlife Anthony for doubts the mid life crisis a hand economist who headed its 1974 second careers Survey for the National science Pascal says midlife crisis syndrome accounts for Many More career shifts by males than by with career change tends to occur at the time of psycho Hera suicide attempt or some other internal with its More Likely to be a change in their objective although there Are psychological factors like the empty like Many women Carol the expressed no real fears about starting Over at 35 nor did she sound apprehensive about making a living in a highly competitive May go into publishing she 1 have considerable experience in the Field id be employ As a hinder dreamed of being a but she also dreamed of being a Tightrope 1 thought that would sic majored in English in col got a Lee Little got had two wrote a got a i became a Glamour Magazine editor after a began cramming for her Law More than at any Lime feel that anything is rom scr ten five years this  Carol who majored in Fine chose Interior design because it seemed a socially acceptable profession for a As a Junior she began teaching a decorating course for minority women who have Ach i eved Success Are making midlife career switches much As men were a decade in to income housing soon she was caught up in the problems of their and the  of Early childhood education programs in the she resumed to school for a degree in child Rosemary encountered hostility of another sort in her shift from a stereotypical male profession Law to a female social one of 13 women graduates in her har Vard Taw masters was then awed by the a Schillne Aura of the its Power and her husband was among the 550 male they have two after a year or so of corporate masters joined the Vera where she planned the Manhattan bowery project for doing found what was must important to working with people using Hal part of my mind Thall sensitive and All those feminine eventually she enrolled in Hunter col lege for a masters degree in social some friends lawyers and social work ers alike still do not understand thai the career change is a rounding out of my she a completion of Margaret bounced around the map in her career As an ism systems Engi even behind the Iron she longed to be a like her who absolutely Orbid me to go to medical today who is married and has an 8yearold interns at new York Hospital and plans to specialize in adolescent lawyer Rosemary seeking social work Calls career change rounding out of my August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9