MARRIED WOMEN AT WORK
Sir, —I heartily agree with Dame Hilda Ross that it is in the interests of small children for the mother to give her whole time to caring for them. It is also in the children’s interests to have a house to live in, and good living standards. Many young mothers sacrifice the first necessity to ensure the others. Perhaps if Dame Hilda Ross had to manage a household on £lO a week she would do the same. To follow the exhortation to “own your own home,” especially in face of credit restrictions, many women, even in higher wage groups, must go to work. Surely a more effective way of encouraging good family life than by lecturing people would be to make the possession of a house and a decent standard of living possible for the average working man without financial assistance from his wife. —Yours, etc., M.W. June 5, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 3
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