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1 Ruth Shallcross, Should Married Women Work 1 (1940)

handle is hein.peggy/shoumaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SHOULD MARRIED
WOMEN WORK?
By Ruth Shallcross
for the
National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs
JOHN SMITH, a toolmaker, worked for a large industrial
organization in the Midwest for nearly twenty years. His
wife, Mary, had never worked outside of their home since
their marriage in 1919. They lived with their three chil-
dren-eight, twelve, and fourteen years of age-in a modestly
furnished home which they had bought just before the crash.
Except for a $5,000 mortgage on the house, they were free
from debt.
In the summer of 1934 John Smith was put on part time,
which reduced the contents of his weekly pay envelope to $25
a week. With very careful planning, cutting out all but abso-
lute essentials, the Smiths could live on this. But they couldn't
meet the $600 yearly payment due the bank on their mort-
gage. Should they give up their home? Mary naturally re-
volted against this idea. She would help. But how? The
Smiths thought of the families that they knew in which the
wife helped in the support. They knew women who took care
This pamphlet is a condensation of a study of this subject made under
the auspices of the National Federation of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, Inc.
Copyright, 1940, by the Public Affairs Committee, Incorporated
-A nonprofit, educational organization-

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