Word: geissler
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Allen Moore Geissler...
...welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...
...mother in a plant," says Miss Geissler, "is only a fraction of a work unit because she puts a new strain on laundries, shops, nurses, hospitals and other services. A New York planebuilder recently complained that when he hired 5,800 women, he had to get 1,800 men to replace them when they stayed home to wash diapers...