Women’s role
Sir, — I refer Mrs Hay (“The Press,” May 2) to the following quote from “Bread and Roses” by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood: S ‘A woman is judged as a wife and a mother — the only role she, is allowed — according to her ability to. maintain stability in her; family and to help her fam-, ily ‘adjust’ to harsh realities. She therefore transmits the values of hard work and conformity to each generation of worker- It is she who forces her children to stay in school and ‘behave’* or who urges her husband not to risk his job by standing up to the boss or going on strike. Thus the role of ■wife and mother is one of social mediator and pacifier. She shields her family from the direct impact of class oppression. She is the true opiate of the r ’.sses ...” — Yours, etc., VERNA STEWART, May 2, 1980.
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