WOMEN TEACHERS' PAY
Sir, —Referring to the letter in “The Press” this morning, I would like to say to your correspondent, “Former Woman Teacher,” that it is a safe guess she has not been married very long. An older wife would have succumbed to propaganda and have persuaded herself that, after all, her place was in the home, and that her work was on a “higher plane.” She would have looked at her housewife’s hands and remembered only that “the hand that rocks the cradle, etc. If however, she was too individualistic to conform to tiie desired pattern of the New Zealand housewife, she would have revolted against net elevated if unpaid duties, and sought remunerative employment on a lower plane. I will not repeat the time-worn cliche about cake, but there is a shortage of teachers.—Yours, etc., H.A. April 11. 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26394, 12 April 1951, Page 5
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