Show IThe ITh The Woman Asks How Can I Justify My Existence By Dy RUTH MILLETT BULLETT Every thinking middle class wife today faces a personal problem that is too big for fat her to solve alone How can an I justify my existence pay for my upkeep By having children That is only a temporary answer For b by the time they are 8 or 10 school has taken over the greatest part partI I of their training and what is left for the mother is not a time full-time job jam Besides while giving children to toa toa toa a husband was once giving him help in the fields today giving a aman aman aman man children is putting at least a a. year 25 financial burden on his shoulders tying shoulders tying him for life to an economic treadmill So children are today in the luxury class- class enjoyable luxuries no doubt but luxuries nevertheless By insisting on doing all her own work even though a maid or part- part time maid wont won't wreck the budget That is a stupid answer For a woman with witha a a good mind to spend her life washing dishes and cooking cooking cooking cook cook- ing meals when she can afford to hire it done is as absurd as for a powered high-powered business man to re refuse refuse refuse re- re fuse to let a a stenographer type his letters and answer his telephone tele tele- phone By devoting her life to helping her husband get ahead ahead in his ca ca- ca reer Few women can d do this Most men dont don't need th the little womans woman's help at all For the most part that is a pretense women feed themselves to justify their husbands husband's supporting them all i through the years and to build buildup buildup i up their egos I By holding down a job outside the home That usually is a poor justification for being a woman she wont won't be paid much And also because she is a woman chances are she wont won't have the kind of job that gives her a chance to take responsibility or grow in her work She will be an underling taking orders all day long from someone else Much better to spend her time playing golf IL she shi c can n nafford afford to A whole class of of- women today have lives that must be filled with worthwhile not trumped trumped up up- up work They must find a place for themselves in lifes life's picture Perhaps by working together they can manage to take a more important part in politics in communIty community community com com- work in doing more than feeling sorry about conditions After all perhaps Viv wives s have more time than their busy husbands in I which to think about and about and act against the against the evils that beset this floundering world |