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“Sex: Female— Dependents:
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porting were supporting children. Dis
aster may also deprive a family of a
male breadwinner and his place is taken
by other members of the group. One
Women’s Bureau publication states that
from three to four in every ten women
are living at home and are contributing
total or partial support to the family
group.
Most married women work to pro
vide for their families-:—to substitute
for a husband’s salary if he is unem
ployed or to supplement his wages when
they are insufficient. Approximately
one-third of all wage-earning women
are also home-makers, which means
that they have a double responsibility
for most of them cannot, because of
low wages, afford to hire domestic aid
in their homes. The types of dull, labor
ious jobs which these women do would
indicate that they could not be working
for love of these jobs. War casualties
will niake it necessary for many more
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women to take the places of husbands,
sons or brothers as providers.
It becomes obvious that we can no
longer overlook women’s low salaries
oh the basis that "thè men have fami
lies to support”—women, too, have
families to support. Women don’t work
for fun or for pin money. They work
in order to carry on the serious business
of liying. Their inadequate salaries low
er the standard of living for them and
for their dependents, and in turn bring
down the generallevel of wage sched
ules. No one group can be depressed
without other groups feeling the ef
fects. Wages in war plants are high at
present for both men and women but
no one expects, them to remain at this
level. In state—and municipal govern
ment offices and in non-war industries
wages have been increased to varying
degrees, but seldom sufficiently tò meet
living costs.
Women , shudder to think of a return
to a "woman’s wage” of the pre-war
period. To avoid such a backward step,
they must make their necessities and
responsibilities known and. then ask fop
adjustments. By conscientious effort in
their work -and in their group affilia
tions, women can overcome .the p'reju-
dices and customs which place them in
the position of supporting themselves
and tlieir dependents with inadequate
paychecks.
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