Marriage Problems
HAT is the listener to do who wants to hear two programmes at the same time? I found myself torn between "Marconi’s Child Grows Up" and the 4ZB Citizens’ Forum discussion on the question of whether marriage is a fair partnership. In the end I listened to the latter. Not so many
years ago, it would have been difficult to get a_ discussion group, composed of both sexes, all agreeing that the woman gets the bad end of the bargain in the marriage _relationship; but men, once violently anti-femin-ist, seem more fair-
minded nowadays, judging, at least, by the careful and sensible comments of the male speakers in this session.’ The chairman summed-up admirably, stressing the point agreed upon by all speakers, that it is mainly from the financial aspect that the woman is handicapped. The provision of a little pocket-money for the wife and mother (even if bachelors and spinsters had to be taxed. to provide it), would go a long way ‘in raising not only her standard of living but also her self-respect, that commodity which drains away a little every time she has to go humbly to her mate and beg the price of a new pair of shoes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 11
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204Marriage Problems New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 11
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