MARRIAGE MARKET
BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE. The British Civil Service is claimed to draw the most attractive women to its ranks. According to the “Daily Express” it heads the* list with 3000 brides a year. Three thousand young women giving up 3000 life jobs and 3000 pensions for 3IHKI men, 3UOO homes, and —how many babies ? There are nearly SO,OOO women in the Civil Service, and every year nearly 5 per cent, of them marry. They .**ro compelled to resign on marriage.
Every woman who has sat at her Whitehall desk for six years or more receives a. dowry. She is given a month’s pay for each year of service, with, a maximum of a year’s salary. A £2OO-a-year-woman with six years’ service would get £lOO to buy her trousseau. If she waited another six years she would received a full year’s salary.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1934, Page 8
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