Show Ruth Millett Says r i m m The Best Wife Isn't Always The One Who Gives Up UpS Up'S S 'S Her Job for fort Housework You ought to give up your job the tell Mary Smith who after 6 o'clock is Mrs John Smith Your husband can support you now now so so get back in the kitchen and fulfill the traditional role of women Such advice has Mary a little confused contused Maybe they're right these people who sound off about lw 5 SS M m married women S M working and warn working wives that their marriages I would stand a am 4 m much u c h better chance of iurI surviving surviving sur sur- 1 If the I woman would give up her Job and be the lit lit- tl Ue tie woman all allday day long But Mary Is if used to looking at things from froma a like business Ruth Millett point of view and she cant can't help but do some me simple arithmetic On one side of a sheet of paper she puts down the salary she earns by working with h her bet r brains In an office On the other side she puts down what her maid gets for doing doing do do- ing the housework what housework what she would be worth If It she took over in the kitchen The figures are impressive Miry Mary finds she Is worth five times as much to her husband as asan asan asan an office worker than as a house- house worker She makes the same kind of tabulation on a friend friend- and finds the friend is worth 10 times as much to her r husband as asan asan asan an office worker as she would be worth as es a housewife No wonder Mary is confused contused Has anyone anOne the right to ask her hernot hernot hernot not to work for a fifth of what she can make Particularly when hen her critics haven't anything but tradition to back them up They tell her that her marriage mar mar- would have a better chance of ot lasting if she gave up her Job job but but it Js is a pretty good marriage right now It seems to her she has a lot more in common common cornmon com corn mon with her husband than someo some some- o of the home stay play bridge ing wives she knows Common sense tells hE her to hang onto her Job But the advice advice advice ad ad- vice of the busybodies worries her nevertheless |