DOMESTIC WORK
HARDSHIP ON WOMEN : ; / REVOLT IN ENGLAND ; /| LONDON, March 14 " Domestic work stifles and blunts the mentality. I have known intelligent, bright women become hardly recognisable, after six months of marriage," said Miss A. Rimer to a conference of the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries.
The conference adopted a resolution deploring attempts to drive women back to domesticity.
Miss Dorothy Evans, president, Baid that women must disabuse their minds of the theory that women's jobs were simple/ and should be badly paid. .Women often worked longer than men. "Go to the cafes and restaurants about 11 p.m., and you will find them filled with men drinking coffee," said Miss Evans. " You will find few women/'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21755, 21 March 1934, Page 12
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