Girls Unwelcome.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1930, Page 14

Girls Unwelcome.

One.’ of: -the , few, towns •in EngUnjl where the men outnumber the. women, Middlesbrough,, finds itself faced with -the : problemof- what-do dp’ -with it? girljp.'-'lt . is a : that amounts to a. tragedy-to many families; A local; correspondent of the Sunday Chronicle ■ writes: “I have just talked with a working-class widow .with four .daughters, aged from 15 to 22, not one of whom can find'work. The family is practically starving.- In. most places daughters .are assets. In the West Riding .textile ;spea<s,:-in. Lancashire,- in - the Midlands,: girls, can- fifid work as ' soon as they leave school,-and within a-year or two. they are earning almost, a.s much as the/men.. Here they are liabilities. In this' town; where the. basic ■ industries are iron and; steel,' ship-building, and engineering, .there is little for women to do. ' ,$o' 1 the' fortunate working-class family is one in which.'there are more boys ■„than- girls. As in India, the Middlesbrough mother., in poor eircumstane'es regards' the birth of a dattghter with.;.much Jess, enthusiasm dhan she does : the'‘. arrival 'of fia man-child