Often people say that women work just for pin money, but that is not so.
There is not much activity by people who earn their living from fishing but only from those for whom salmon provide extra pin money.
Many of those employees are not working for pin money but for a family income.
Would anyone dare argue that, because most women work, they really work only for pin money?
We are talking not about pin money but about whether people can afford to pay the rent.
We still assume that women work for a second income—that is, second in order of importance—and that income is often described as pin money.
Given the present economic situation, it cannot be said that those workers—especially females—are interested only in earning pin money.
When employment protection legislation was introduced, it could have been argued that in many instances part-time workers were in employment for pin money.
