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Another Nursing Ad
Woman's Own / 14th July 1967
I know, but I couldn’t resist. Here’s another attempt to sell nursing as anything other than a noble vocation, with salaries of £700 being waved in front of young women. Just two years later, an average weekly wage for women of £20 was being quoted in this title, which makes £1040 a year. So the nursing wage isn’t necessarily *that* amazing. You might get 6 weeks holiday a year, but a 42 hour working week means that you need it!
Tags: blatant sexism, careers, health, nursing, social history
4 Comments
Von Paz on 30 June 2010 @ 11pm
Or, how about teaching?
Lil on 29 September 2010 @ 6pm
teaching, nursing, or civil servant — until 1971 any woman had to be vouched for BY A MAN to get ‘hire purchase’ ie buy goods on credit. He could be your imbecile younger brother, as long as he had gonads he clearly understood finance which would only trouble your pretty little head…
Tanya Jones on 30 September 2010 @ 8am
Thanks, Lil. It’s easy to forget how recently these stupid attitudes still held sway! My generation is the first to grow up with any sort of assumption that the sexes are equal…
TheLeen on 26 March 2010 @ 11am
“She is a really important person in this modern world, and is treated as such.” Yeah, because that’s how it works…