EMPLOYMENT OF MARRIED WOMEN
TO TBB EDITOR.
Sir>—ln your. Saturday's issue appeared a paragraph referring to the employment of married women—those who worked not of necessity but merely to augment their husband's earnings. This was .declared by a'number of trades j unions to be detrimentalto the employment 6f single women, whose .earnings ai-e : their, sole .means of Jivelihood. It does seem unfair, indeed, that, having a husband -earning man's,wages, the wife sliould also be employed, but. I wonder Jl as.,Xt eyer occui-red to the unions that these same women are .cutting out of employment widows who, perhaps have to take the place of sole breadwinner to probably a large family ? In many firms married men have the preference over single men.-Should not women who have the responsibility,of home and family also have preference over single girls or even young: men ?!,' ft B ! eeln g<&• there"'.; is no difference^between; a married man Z h (> me and {amily .and ?a ; widow! with-the same responsibility. We can-' not all be dressmakers and waitresses, ?i w am r7 slncwely glad to know that the New Zealand Trades Council's federation wi 1 giye this matter the thor> ough consideration it merits at their forthcomujs!;.faster' ConftVence.-I am
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INTERESTED.'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 34, 10 February 1925, Page 9
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