[Editor: This untitled article was included in “A Woman’s Column” (edited by Mary Gilmore), published in The Worker (Wagga Wagga, NSW), 2 January 1908.]
[Dr. D. F. MacGillicuddy]
Dr. D. F. MacGillicuddy, of Melbourne, in a lecture to a suburban branch of the Australian Institute of Domestic Economy:—
“Insufficient remuneration to women in business was, never more than now, a matter for the consideration of organisations like the one he was addressing. Women could not possibly remain moral, straight-living citizens, dressing decently, feeding on something more than the husks of the corn, finding the indispensable monthly railway ticket, and, in addition, obtaining all the necessary modicum of pleasure, on a beggarly eight to fourteen or fifteen shillings a week.
And still on such a basis — a surface basis, at least — as this a large number of women managed to drag a doubtful existence until they were married — an uncertain contingency, indeed, where the fairer sex was so much in numerical excess of the males.”
It has all been said before, but it can’t be said too often, especially when there is a chance of getting woman to help in woman’s cause.
Source:
The Worker (Wagga Wagga, NSW), 2 January 1908, p. 15
Editor’s notes:
Dr. D. F. MacGillicuddy = Daniel Florance MacGillicuddy, a medical doctor; he was born in Benalla (Vic.) in 1864, and died in Richmond (Vic.) in 1936
See: 1) “Dr. D. F. MacGillicuddy”, The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 14 July 1936, p. 10
2) “Personal”, The Benalla Standard (Benalla, Vic.), 17 July 1936, p. 5
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