“BAD INVESTMENT”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11407, 7 January 1931, Page 7

“BAD INVESTMENT”

A DAUGHTER EARNS LESS

Stressing the need for “equal pay for equal work.” Mrs. Blanco \\ hite. speaking at Bedford College at the smner school of the National. Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship crave some reasons why women v“ 1 e not- paid as much as men. says the “Daily Telegraph.” . “People will put more money into a <rood investment than into a bad. said Mrs. White. “At present a hoy is looked upon as a good investment and a girl a bad one. As long as a -rid will not bring in as much money as -a hoy, parents will hesitate to invest as much money in the training of their girls as in the training of their boys. • , “The truth is that women are paid less than men because they are considered to be interior. They aie giM.ii less than men because they ionu areservoir of cheap labor, and women are now being used in the mam to replace men, and throw them out on to the labor market. ‘‘About three-quarters of-the P r0 ~ sent unemployment is, in my opinion, duo to this cheap labor. If there is a job in a factory and a mail and a woman applied lor it, on the whole I think that the man should bo given it, because men are such hopeless creatures. A mail out of work is always at a loose end. He invariably becomes an idler, and can find nothing better to do than to lean up against a wall with his hands in his pockets. On the other band, an out ot work woman will nearly always find sometiling useful to do.” Mrs. Blanco-White added that the introduction oi now light nuiclunoiy was resulting in an enormous increase in the number of women employed at low rates to run it. “Tins is because women can no on with light monotonous work ‘til the cons come home,’ but after a few weeks a man goes Bolshie.” . “Nearly all the money m tins world is earned by men. Though women have the spending of the money, it is not tlieir own, and the general lines on which it' should he spent are laid down for them.”