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Our grandchildren will laugh at us and our generation for many reasons—or for no reasons at all—but surely few things will tickle their risible faculties so much as the attitude of their antecedents towards the woman, and especially towards the married woman worker. One may believe it or not, but in this age of advanced thought there are still people who get angrily agitated when they discuss the woman who is married and is so base as to work for a salary.
From enlightened Lancashire, for instance, comes the report of an education committee meeting at which one worthy councillor got very wroth about married women teachers who work, as he stated, only for "pin money." If-he thinks these women merely ornament the schoolrooms for five hours a day in order to draw a, salary at the end of the month then it is time he gave his place on an education committee to someone more enlightened in matters of teaching. And, from Lancashire mark you, comes this protest against the married woman worker, the home of Gracie Fields who with her art, and by working' after she is married gains more pin money than any other woman.in England. Admitted she certainly has a pull over all other women workers in that she makes us all laugh and therein lies the secret as to why councillors and others would advocate the Gracies working and the Mrs. Browns staying at home and limiting their talents to the Mr. Browns and the home circles generally. It is sadly true that few women workers are laugh-makers. Probably if they could set their offices in a roar they would be more popular as fellow workers—that is, of course, popular with everyone except the Number One who is willing only to pay for efficiency in the line he indicates. It is a fact though that, except for the Bright Young Things, women workers are a dour lot, and if our councillor is correct and it is only pin money they are after then one must conclude the iron of their situation seems to have entered into their souls.
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