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Some teaching fellows collected one paycheck at the higher rate before the August freeze. Most however did not collect their salary until September when the wage freeze had already gone into effect...
...their husbands turn the corner from being fairly poor to being fairly well off. These women join the labor force to extend their families' economic reach beyond the main breadwinner's grasp, and often with his encouragement. For families of almost any income level, a second paycheck can mean an end to worry and a new ability to take faraway vacations or send the children to camp and college...
...year ago to supplement her husband's $11,000 annual income as a supervisor for an oil-equipment firm. Even though more than half of her $7,000-a-year salary goes for the care of their two children and other work-related expenses, the second paycheck has helped. "It seemed that our arguments always centered on how our money should be spent," Mrs. Wrigley says. "With more coming in, we give each other wider latitude." Their recent purchases have included a 16-ft. motorboat and some new home decorations...
...Indeed, the rise of workingwomen is caused at least as much by their desire for respect as for cold cash. If the trend to working mothers seems uncaring and unwise, defenders of it point out that a second paycheck often allows fathers to spend more time with their children. Not only is Dad freed of some pressure to work overtime and struggle for promotion, but he also feels an obligation to get home and help Mother with the chores...
...Colleges and students must realize that education is something entirely apart from insurance for a status job. This is particularly true of the liberal arts, which in their proper perspective are intended to instill wisdom and discernment, rather than specific knowledge that can later be traded in for a paycheck. Says Kansas Vice Chancellor Balfour: "Many people are at the university for the wrong reasons?because it gives them a different image than if they were to become mechanics or carpenters...