My father was paid with 2 bankers drafts. One went straight to my mother who paid it into her Post Office Savings Bank account
As far as I know neither my mother nor my gran was ever required to account in any detail to her husband for how the money was spent
I have always had my own 'pay packet'. I cant really imagine what it must be like to depend on a husband, however generous & relaxed he might be about it
And I wonder how many fathers of daughters today would contemplate with any equanimity the prospect of their daughter being entirely dependent on another man?
And yet
In the 1970s I used to get into trouble with my feminist friends. Although I enjoyed my work, wouldnt have it any other way, most of my friends who were my age did not work. Many wished that they could. But I used to say Whoever thinks that Liberation means being tied to an office from 9 to 5 needs their head examined
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