Working women
Sir,—The public meeting referred to by J. E. Viney, (March 19), was stacked with "a crowd of over three hundred priests, nuns, Salvation Army workers, and S.P.U.C. supporters. Not a massive amount of grassroots public support, but a backlash to the wide acceptance of the Working Women’s Charter. The opponents of this charter call it “anti-family” and “anti-chil-dren.” On the contrary, the charter is designed to support and improve the status of women whether in paid employment or in the home. The pro-choice clause gives a woman the freedom to control her fertility, her future, and her life-style. As “only about one-third of New Zealand families are nuclear in the traditional sense — “she may not be a part of a nuclear family, (along with 66 per cent of other New Zealanders), but this does not mean she is “anti-family” or “anti-children.”—Yours, etc., PAT WILKINSON. March 26, 1981.
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