A Minority-Women Ramp Ste,-"Equal Pay" is the slogan of a
comparatively small (but extremely vocal and largely selfish)
minority of ardent feminists-in the main, the quarter of a
million of them who are Civil Servants or teachers. But what of
the nine million women who are wives and mothers-whose only
"employment" is in the home, and whose only "pay" comes from
their husbands' pay packets? What will "equal pay" do for them?
There has always been the family element in a man's wages and it
is still there -even though we have small allowances for the
second and subsequent children. When these were first
introduced, it was stated for the Government that it was still
the intention that men's wage rates should recognise that he had
a wife to keep, the first child to maintain, and to bear a large
part of the cost of rearing each subsequent child. Occasionally
we hear these agitators for "equal pay" speak of increased
family allowances. but for the most part they demand it "without
strings"-m eaning that "equal pay"