The sisterhood reads Pearls and Irritations

September 3, 2024

In my article published last week I referred to “my tram-driver grandfather and my home duties grandmother”, but instead P&I amended it to read “my tram-driving grandfather and my grandmother who did not work”. Nothing could be further from the truth.

My second wave feminist friends and I were incensed and rightfully so. My grandmother did work, but not in the paid workforce; she, like her contemporaries, was described as “Home Duties” in the print and electronic media, on electoral rolls and other public documents.

This is a lesson for young editors.