MOTHERS AT WORK
Sir,-It was with considerable interest that I heard a panel discussion on that highly-contentious subject of married women, and specifically mothers, who work. Our pundits, both political and social, have subjected the general public to much instruction that has ranged from Utopian nonsense to a clear-heaced presentation of the considerable issues involved in this social phenomenon. I consider that this panel discussion came squarely into the latter category. The panel emphasised that the central issue involved was economic. Not the economics of "keeping up with the Joneses,’ as suggested by your correspondent May Daniel, but the economics of supplying families with necessities. It is a hard, cold, unpalatable fact of life that many mothers must work to maintain that irreducible minimum in their standard of living. Any medium of information which continues to emphasise this point is coming to grips with the problem.
PATRICIA
CHRISTENSEN
(Wellineton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 5
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149MOTHERS AT WORK New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 5
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