Retirement Of Nurses.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 8

Retirement Of Nurses.

A Womans View.

QN THE SUBJECT of the age at which nurses should retire too much attention is paid to the question of the efficiency of a woman at fifty-five, and to the consideration of whether she has saved enough money to retire on by that time. An aspect that deserves more thought is whether a woman who has given up her life to the care of the sick does not deserve the prospect of easier times when she is fifty-five, and this leads to the question of a superannuation fund for nurses. Undoubtedly, there are men and women whose period of efficiency goes on beyond the retiring age, but that is no reason why the rest should be kept at work. At fifty-five a woman who has had to work hard ought to get rest. The fact that nurses are too poorly paid to make that age convenient to them gives greater urgency to the demand for adequate superannuation. We are yet a long way from rewarding nurses according to their worth. B.E.S.