WHEN FORCED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 7

WHEN FORCED

AUST. WIVES WILL WORK “NOT OTHERWISE” NEW YORK, April 7. Mrs., 11. E. Brooks, wife of the Com-missioner-General for Australia in the United States, participating in a symposium at the English Speaking Union, discussing the increase in the number of working women, generally presented the Australian attitude that married women not compelled to do work, did not, unlike their English and American sisters. Instead, they preferred to engage in philanthropic work, where free services were greatly needed Although Australian women had the franchise, women generally preferred to train themselves in social work rather than enter politics incompletely equipped. “When Australian women do enter politics,” she said, “we want to be as well equipped as the best than as the weakest of the men politicians.” She declared that. Australian opinion was opposed to mairied women competing with men for jobs unnecessary for their livelihood. Competition in the United States between the sexes for jobs was increasingly keen. There were instances of bitter and fierce denunciation of married women workers for eliminating single women, who- charged wives with having accepted lower wages in order to deprive the needy of work.