Not All Women Want Career

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31832, 9 November 1968, Page 2

Not All Women Want Career

Careen for women had become fashionable, but a woman who did not want work outside her home should not necessarily be regarded as “just s cabbage,” Mrs Eileen Saunders, an officer of the Child Welfare Division, said recently. “Not everybody wants a career. A woman who does not want outside activities, who prefers to stay home and bake and to devote her time to her family, should not be made to feel guilty,” she said in an address to the Canterbury Play Centres Association.

Today's small families, “tucked away in their threebedroom houses in the suburbs," placed a strain on mothers, who often suffered from loneliness.

In the large families of past generations there was usually an unmarried aunt or a grandparent at home to share the burden.

“Families used to be almost a community, but the modem small family places a strain on some people,” Mrs Saunders said.

“A great deal of the dis-

tress and disasters that happen to families are caused by strain. In our mental hospitals there are large numbers of young married women and this is a bad reflection on our society.”