MARRIED WOMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1929, Page 5

MARRIED WOMEN

INVESTIGATION ASKED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. In view of the unsatisfactory state of the labour market, not only in Auckland, but throughout the Dominion, united efforts are to be made to have an investigation made into the circumstances of married, women occupying city positions, while # their husbands are also earning good salaries. Appeals have been directed to the Auckland Employers’ Association by the Auckland Women’s Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party and ‘lie Auo.klanM Unemployment Committee.

At a meeting yesterday of the Auckland Women’s Branch of ■ the Labour Party, the members of the executive attributed- the encroachment of married women on the employment market to selfishness, resultant from the effects of the war, and to women continuing to hold men's positions following the cessation of hostilities. Tt wa§ complained that while some factory girls were on the border of starvation, married women had occupied positions for ten and twelve years, when the need for them doing so did not exist. A resolution was passed affirming the principle of writing to the Employers’ Association, drawing its attention to the situation and ashing that an investigation he made into the circumstances of married women applicants for positions, and of those already holding positions. A deputation will wait upon the Association, and it is intended to bring pressure to bear to have the whole question threshed out.