UNEMPLOYED WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 6

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN.

POOR TERMS OFFERED,

(To the Editor.)

If a single man in the relief -worker* , camps cannot manage to make both ends meet unless he receives 10/ per week in addition to his food, and in addition appeals are being made to the general public for assistance iu the way of boots and clothes, how ie a single woman expected to get along on nothin* at all? I 'have just heard that one woman called at the office of the Unemployed Women's Bureau and was told about someone who wanted help with general farm work. All that was offered in the way of remuneratfon was a home and the promise of a few shillings now and again. When the applicant asked for 10/ per week in addition to food and shelter ehe was told that such a proposition was quite out of the question, and wae further told that many women were only too Xd to "-et their food and board in return for u-nrk ill England the women who are unemployed can claim the unemployment insurance benefit (known as the "dole"). In this country the women have to contribute their quota to the unemployment fund, but they get nothing in return. A woman, and especially a *iii"!e «0.na.., is Ji«t as much entitled to a decent standard of living as a .man, so why make conditions so impossible that women SJSy be forced to sell their bodies m to live? .