GIRLS IN OFFICES.
Six-, —We hear a lot about girls taking the worß from boys and men. Well, why not teach the boys housework ? We all know that men cooks got twice the pay of women I'ooks. Of course, housework is hard, and is never finished, but why should the girls get all the hard work f I began to do my share of housework forty-five years ago, and I know that I worked far harder than my daughters do with their regular hours and holidays. In my day it was my father and brothers who did their eight or nine hours, and got their weekly holiday and a fortnight once a year. I have never had a holiday all my life, but tire girls do now; they get tho same treatment as their brothers. It is all right, to say a woman's place is in the home, but if she is capable of office work, what right has anyone to say she must do housework ? Three young men I know go <o work. They employ a man who does all their work, cooking and washing, mending and housework, and the place is as trim as a ship. So I think if boys were trained it would be a good thing. * Grandma.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21225, 4 July 1932, Page 13
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