EOUAL PAY FOR EOUAL WORK
Sir,-I work in a clothing factory and for once I have seen our girls really "steamed up" when I showed them parts of your article. on equal pay in a recent Listener, particularly the section by Professor Hearnshaw. He certainly did not help to break down the idea that university lecturers live in a theoretical vacuum and often fail to look realistically at a situation. As to equal pay being an incentive against marriage, our experience is that it is a lack of
adequate wages that prevents us from marrying much sooner than we do, It takes a long time for a boy to save enough to get a home together and if the girl was earning a salary based on her ability and not on a woman’s rate they would be able to marry much sooner. Also Professor Hearnshaw is biologically unsound in his statement that the extra money would be an incentive against marriage. He also seems to disregard the fact that, due to two world wars, a larger number of women are unable to marry and they are to be penalised for men’s folly. If women are good enough to fight and work side by side with men in war-time, they are good enough to work side by.side with them in peace-time on equal-terms, with no tags attached for being single.
S.
B.
(N ewtown).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 5
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233EOUAL PAY FOR EOUAL WORK New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 5
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