A mother feeds her children early in the morning before heading out to paid work. Working mothers’ heavy workload is sometimes referred to as the ‘double shift’ – one at home, unpaid, doing childcare and housework, and the other for money in the office, shop or other workplace.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1989/2188/22A
by John Nicholson
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