DOMESTIC WORKERS.
SERVICE IN DOMINIONS.
" SLUR ON BRITISH WOMEN."
A. and N.Z
LONDON. April 7
"It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women arc only useful in the Dominions as domestic workers," said Miss Wilemau, founder of the Empire League for Overseas Settlement, addressing the Soroptimists' Club. Miss Wileman complained that women were only invited to migrate as domesticworkers, for which women of the British professional classes were wholly unfitted. It was detrimental to British prestige. "Domestic work overseas is three times as heavy as in England," she added. " It makes my blood boil to see American women flaunting luxurious wealth and sneering at the gently-bred middleclass British women working over the border in Canada as domestic drudges."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 11
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