1. Child care is an issue that impacts on a broad cross-section of working women. 2. Children were not the only dependents of working women. 3. Elsewhere working women and the wives of working men lacked access to this elementary form of private social security. 4. Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers. 5. For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women. 6. Many working women rely on relatives for childcare. 7. Many working women still meet with prejudice from men. 8. Olwen Hufton observes that outside domestic service single working women had difficulty surviving on their wages. 9. She liked the mail-order concept, saying that working women have less and less time to shop at stores. 10. That suggests that we are doing quite well by working women. |