CHANCE TO WORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 271, 16 November 1945, Page 2

CHANCE TO WORK

SWEDISH MOTHERS EXPERT DOMESTIC WORK Domestic issues in Sweden were di. cussed recently by Miss Caroline Haslett, president, of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women, which represents 28 affiliations with women's national organisations. “The women in Sweden are concentrating on nursery schools for the immediate future which will make it possible for a mother to work if she wishes to do so,” she said. “They have a law by which a woman may not be dismissed on marriage, nor if she is about to become a mother. It is bred, not on our ideas of women's rights, but on the point of view of the family. They think that a woman is a far bettor mother if she can continue her career if she wants to do so. ‘ Women in Sweden want also to nut domestic service on to a higher level. They arc more democratic than we were before Ihe war. I was interested to see the daughters of the house taking their turn at waiting at table with the one mai|i, whom they looked upon as an expert.”