THE “ECONOMIC WOMAN”
“The economists used to talk of the Economic Man, who responded solely to economic considerations,” said Miss Rathbone, M.P., in the House of Commons. “If there is an Economic Woman she must be a spinster because no Economic Woman of the'working class would be such a fool as to get married. The married woman of the working class always gets the worst of it every she decides when she marries to give up her job and look after her home and children, she is entering one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. She does not get a penny of wages and is expected to live on what her husband can spare her out of an income which is no larger than that of a bachelor, but out of which she has to keep her husband and children. If she retains her job everybody looks at her askance. Her employer looks at her as one who may be irregular in her work, the trade union looks at her as a potential blackleg, and the spinster often asks why there should, be two incomes coming into the same house.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 August 1932, Page 11
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