Job's Daughters International is a Masonic affiliated youth organization for girls and young women aged 10 to 20.
Members of Job's Daughters are also not restricted to join or be leaders in other Masonic youth bodies, such as Rainbow for Girls and can serve as any of the female youth leaders in DeMolay being able to serve as a Sweetheart, Princess, Duchess, and Chapter Little Sis.
If a daughter reaches the age of 20 or marries, and is in good standing in the Bethel (an individual chapter), she is considered a majority member.
The organization was founded as The Order of Job's Daughters by Ethel T. Wead Mick in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 20, 1920.
[1] [2] The purpose of the organization is to band together young women and strives to build character through moral and spiritual development.
Ethel founded the Order with the assistance of her husband, Dr. William H. Mick, and several Freemasons and members of Eastern Star of Nebraska.
By June 1923 the Job's Daughters had been endorsed by the Grand Chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star in Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, DC.
At the third annual meeting of the "Supreme Guardian Council" in Chicago on Oct. 12, 1923, delegates were present from twenty-three states, the Territory of Alaska and Manitoba.
[5] In 1931 the name was changed to the International Order of Job's Daughters after a Bethel was instituted in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The ritual- a small purple book used by members has been revised a total number of 7 times, in 1934, 1944, 1954, 1964, 1974, 1989, and lastly in 2011.
The Junior Princess' Crown has a white jewel in the center to represent hope, purity, and truth.
Notable former Job's Daughters include Kim Cattrall, Jacquelynne Fontaine, Nancy Fleming, Jenilee Harrison, Nannette Hegerty, Vicki Lawrence, Heather Moore, Jean Rabe, Debbie Reynolds, and Aimee Teegarden.
Most notably signing and singing the first and fifth lyric of "Nearer, My God to Thee," in the Christian Cross formation.