WOMEN'S OCCUPATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 8

WOMEN'S OCCUPATIONS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l have read "Alpha's" letter with interest. lie has stated his side of the subject admirably. Whai gives him the idea that domestic duties is woman's true sphere? Women discovered long ago that it was not. Those who advocate domestic duties for women usually look down on domestic servants. Why should the young girl pocket her pride, take on domestic duties, be worn out physically at the end of the day—her nerves on edga through the caprices of unruly children while the young man sits nice and comfortable all day adding up figures? Ai for being unfitted to marry on account of her ignorance concerning domestic duties, she soon learns, as then it is a. labour of love; but as a suitable profession before marriage—no thank you. All credit is due to those girls and women who replaced the men during the war. Haven't they proved themselves capable of something higher than mere drudgery? ; Send them back to their scrubbing,' indeed! Talking of "burning injustice," the other day I noticed a slim woman scrubbing a lengthy staircase leading from a main street, while a few doors away able-bodied men measured off crepe de chine by the yard. Good luck totho women who "know their onions. They have as much right to an easy job—to work that interests them—as have men.— lam' et°- A WOMAN.