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No Easy Victory: Towards Equal Pay for Women in the Government Service 1890-1960

Appendix III

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Appendix III

This is the kind of table which it is necessary to construct when endeavouring to establish the respective number of dependants of men and women. This table applies only to children (there seem to be no other figures available showing other dependants). If married men and widowers are taken as a group 46 percent have no children and about 20 percent have only one child. This table indicates that there is not a very strong case for paying all men a wage to cover mythical children. Note that single men also would receive that wage. (W. B. Sutch, 'Economic Effects of Equal Pay in New Zealand', Table IX, 1955.)
DEPENDENT CHILDREN: CENSUS 1951 (INCLUDES MAORIS)
Number of Dependent Children Married Men Widowers Widows Total
Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
Nil 186,712 4311 24,417 89.84 65,541 91.24 276,670 52.00
1 83,217 19.21 1,301 4.79 3,182 4.43 87,700 16.48
2 79,155 18.28 705 2.59 1,526 2.12 81,386 15.29
3 45,222 10.44 315 1.16 707 0.99 46,244 8.69
4 21,118 4.88 220 0.81 369 0.51 21,707 4.08
5 9,130 2.11 98 0.36 197 0.27 9,425 1.77
6 4,080 0.94 52 0.19 80 0.11 4,212 0.79
7 1,974 0.46 19 0.07 74 0.10 2,067 0.39
8 1,076 0.25 10 0.04 18 0.03 1,104 0.21
9 and over 818 0.19 7 0.03 15 0.02 840 0.16
Not specified 589 0.13 34 0.12 126 0.18 749 0.14
Totals: 433,091 100.00 27,178 100.00 71,835 100.00 532,104 100.00

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