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More Rappahannock
Women Employed
The number of working wives is on the increase in Rappahannock County.
No less than 28.3 percent of the married women in the local area leave their homes each day and head for their outside jobs in offices, stores, factories, schools, hospitals and the like. In I960, the figures show, only 21.5 percent did so. They find that they are able to do this without neglecting their household duties or their role as mother. One thing that has made it possible is the time-saving and labor-saving appliances and the prepared foods that are available. They permit her to get her housework done with dispatch. She has been putting the extra time on her hands to good use,
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