Housewife With Three
Children
*"\TO, I’m not against~ it outright. Against it-but with reservations. I think we can only have it when all useful work is paid for. I see no reason why a spinster should get less than a bachelor, provided she pays for her theatre tickets, chocolates, and so on: My view is that the argument should not be between the sexes at all but between workers who have children and workers without. If the adults of to-day live to retiring age, whether they’re parents or not, and whether they save or not, they will be kept by the work of the children of to-day; and therefore they should help to keep those children now. "When a mother gets a salary, when Family Allowances are still tax-free, and when a wife gets the same personal Income Tax exemption as a man or a single woman-then, I’ll be all for Equal Pay for Equal Work. And I shan’t grudge the childless their 40-hour week, free. week-ends, and holidays. In the meantime, the more difference there is between my husband’s salary and that of a childless colleague, married or single, male or female, the better Tl be pleased." st ~~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 7
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199Housewife With Three Children New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 7
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