MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20491, 17 February 1930, Page 12

MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS.

Sir, —In reply to "Infant Teacher" I should like to say that my idea of "this freedom" is that a married woman should be at liberty to exercise her own judgment as to whether she seeks re-employ-ment or not-, without having to go into the details of her private life. How do we know what she is up against? Although her husband appears to be earning a good salary her economic position may be far from satisfactory. It .is true she may want to go back to work from the sheer love of it. If so, what better teachers could Ave have ? If they oust those' who are unwilling drudges merely for economic reasons then it is to the benefit of the community that they should. Doubtless there are isolated cases of married women going back to teaching from neither love of the work nor necessity, but from sheer greed. Freedom, whether it is "this freedom" or any other 'kind, always has its cages of .abuse, but it is only through freedom in the sense of the right of the individual to exercise private judgment in his or her own private affairs that moral progress can come. Unmarried, Unemployed, Woman Teacher.