A Woman's Place
SIR,—Jacky Gillott, in her article 'A Woman's Place,' finds it 'extraordinary that only one in every three
married women works outside the home. She finds thchome 'not a place from which reasonably adult rights and opportunities can be argued.' May I sug- gest why? Married women have no wish to argue these points. They have won them already.
The rights and the opportunities are all theirs. They married to escape the drudgery of work for which most of them are not emotionally or biologic- ally suited. In possessing a home, husband and chil- dren they have what they need. What is wanted is the education to give them the many skills they will need to do their job well. If women were fitted for this supreme job then the Chinese saying would be ful- filled: 'When the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; then the national life is orderly, and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world.'
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