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WOMEN: Pay for Wives?

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TIME

In the course of her regular weekly broadcast for Pond’s Face Creams last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt declared: “I sometimes think that the wife who stays at home and carries on all the work in the household should be paid a definite salary, for she earns it without any question.”

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