WOMEN AND WORK

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 13

WOMEN AND WORK

(To the Editor.) Sir, —A "Go-getter's" ad vice "is a very material side of the unemployment problem, and one if adopted generally would only increase.unemployment; and bring about 'economic chaos. . "Gogetter" says the double income eouple> only rank with other people, etc She needs to remember that'two blacks don.'t make ono white. She also says this is tho day of selfishness and grab, and pray, who makes it so,, but those lost to all sense of spiritual values? Yes, tho married woman, opens a business — i.e., sticks a shop front on her house very often, and competes with the single business woman, who has a Mgh shop rent to pay, besides being , absolutely dependent on her. own resources. All honour to the. married woman who is compelled through'force of circumstances ,to work, but for. the;'childless married woman to work just for love of gain, is what employers.: should not encourage. The writer -lias known married women work who didn't need to, arid when they had to give.up their jobs their trouble began.-One, woman said: "A woman shouldn't" go put to work, after marriage, because a nian grows accustomed to a big income." Another woman the writer knows has become a discontented woman since giving,. up her outside jol). One has only to read Hutchinsoii's book, "This Freedom," to understand the demoralising effect on home life, because of women working 'outside their own homes. —I am, etc;, A SINGLE BUSINESS WOMAN.