MARRIED WOMEN AT WORK
Sir, —The Welfare Department has on its staff a large number of married women earning £l6 to £lB a week What about Dame Hilda Ross taking stock and clearing out all married women who have husbands earning good salaries. —Yours, etc., FED UP.
May 26, 1956. [“I may state that 1 have never taken any exception to married women working,” said the Minister oi Social Welfare (Dame Hilda Ross) when this letter was referred to her “My whole remarks were addressed to mothers of young families, with healthy husbands in steady employment, leaving their work in the house for other work outside. What married women, without ties, do in their spare time is no business of mine, nor, I think, of anybody else. I have made inquiries from my Child Welfare Department and, as far as they know, there is no married woman with a young family working in that department.”]
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27985, 4 June 1956, Page 16
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