MEN FOR HOUSEWORK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 9

MEN FOR HOUSEWORK.

A significant sign of the times is the increasing employment of men and boys for domestic duties which were formerly considered to be entirely women's work. Lately it has been growing more and more apparent that a large number of women will not qualify for or accept domestic employment. Women seem to want to get away from household duties and fight side by side with men, and simultaneously with their revolt from what we must call domesticity comes a movement on the part of the other sex to qualify themselves for the. work from which women are turning aside. It is now po&sible to get all spring cleaning done by men, and, low be it spoken, the work is more thoroughly performed than it has been done by female servants assisted by the garulous, greedy, and none too energetic female household drudge. Furthermore, lads are now being trained, and with conspicuous success, to do daily work at houses. They are found especially useful by dwellers in flats-, and, both as cooks and as "housemaids," boys who have been properly trained do their work far more thoroughly than their sisters.'—American paper.