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We, the WomenBY RUTH MIL.LETTMost of the letters I have received from mothers-in-lmv and daughters-in-law who have tried living together through the war are pretty sad reading.Mother-in-law spoils Junior or daughter-in-law doesn't do a thing around the house, and on and on. But here’s a happy solution to the problem that two intelligent women have worked out.While the son and husband is overseas mother-in-law and daughter-in-law arc living togther. There is a small child, too, who could complicate the picture, but doesn’t.For the plan works like this. I he daughter-in-law „ is a nurse, who works three days out of each week. The mother-in-law is a professional women who managesto keep her career going byworking downtown three days a week.So three days of the week on woman .stays home, does the housework, takes care of the child —and gets her fill of domesticity. Then she is a career woman for three days— during which she is free of housekeepingcares. The same goes for the other woman of the household.That leaves just one day of every week for the two to share the house and each other’s compa ny.FOR THE FUTURESo both women have their careers and their jobs and enough but not too much of each other’s company. And #Junior doesn’t have two persons directing hiin at once, or striving to monopolize his love.How much more sensible that arrangement is than the usual wartime one where the young wife and mother works and the mother-in-law stays at home to do the housework and take care of the children. And what a really simple plan it is.It might even be an idea for women to file away for the time when there aren’t enough full-Lime jobs for women to goaround. /—-O'--
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Hope Star
Hope, Arkansas, US
Thu, Aug 23, 1945
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