MARRIED WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 182, 4 August 1930, Page 6

MARRIED WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT.

I am indeed pleased to see (from the news item in last Saturday's issue of the "Star ) that at last some responsible people are talcing action in the disgraceful matter of marnea women* whose husbands are well able to keep them, holding positions that other women ana even men are in need of. In a New Zealand town a woman,.in a drapery shop earning *» a week maried a man with a reputed salary o £8 weekly, and she flatly refused to lew her job. They lived in a furnished bed-sittmg room at 30/ a week. In another town a war bride obtained a situation in a showroom wAije her husband was amassing a tidy little p» during the boom years. When asked why sue bothered to work when hubby was doing 2° well, she gravely replied that she wished w> bring her two sisters out to New Zealand. Well, she duly brought them out, and one oi them married soon afterwards. But tfl younger girl had "to be educated"—at one ■ . the best schools—so Mrs. Homie continued w> work. Now little sister's education is finisliw, but Mrs. Homie still clings like a limpet,w> her job. Despite all raving feminists, a married woman's place is in her home, and tn few jobs there are should be left to smgw girls and those married women whom circ stances force into the overcrowded la JL olu market. SISTEK SUE. .