This week, I received a copy of the 1966 book by Lois Benjamin, So You Want to Be Working Mother. The book took on a topic that controversial at the time and the book was widely reviewed. The book begins:

“Like the weather, working mothers are now a fact of life that almost anyone can talk about, and often does. Also like the weather, we are something nobody knows quite what to do about, beyond recognizing, a little uncomfortably, that we seem to be here to stay.”

An article about the book led to a debate about the issue in the “Column with a Heart” which ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. The fight to keep women in the home was a strong one and readers were quick to write in. I wonder what the columnist Eleanor Hart thought – she was the mother of two and a longtime journalist.

I am finishing up a conference paper on Eleanor Hart’s column.

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This week, I received a copy of the 1966 book by Lois Benjamin, So You Want to Be Working Mother. The book took on a topic that controversial at the time and the book was widely reviewed. The book begins:

“Like the weather, working mothers are now a fact of life that almost anyone can talk about, and often does. Also like the weather, we are something nobody knows quite what to do about, beyond recognizing, a little uncomfortably, that we seem to be here to stay.”

An article about the book led to a debate about the issue in the “Column with a Heart” which ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. The fight to keep women in the home was a strong one and readers were quick to write in. I wonder what the columnist Eleanor Hart thought – she was the mother of two and a longtime journalist.

I am finishing up a conference paper on Eleanor Hart’s column.

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