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Crossroads for Women/Carrefour pour femmes was one of three transition houses that opened in New Brunswick in the early 1980s. Like most transition houses established in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s, Crossroads/Carrefour relied on short-term government grants and donations and could only pay low wages to its staff. Based on interviews with activists and the privately held records of the shelter, this article explores how organizers negotiated the contradiction between working for women's equality and paying women low wages. Organizers secured government support for the shelter, but they were less successful in changing opinions about the value of women's work. Resumé Carrefour pour femmes / Crossroads for Women est l'une des trois maisons de transition qui ont vu le jour au Nouveau-Brunswick au début des années 1980. Comme la plupart des maisons de transition fondées au Canada dans les années 1970 et 1980, Carrefour pour femmes / Crossroads for Women dépendait de subventions gouvernementales à court terme et des dons, et ne pouvait verser que de faibles salaires à son personnel. À la lumière d'entrevues auprès d'activistes et des dossiers privés du refuge, cet article explore comment les organisatrices ont concilié la contradiction entre leur travail en faveur de l'égalité des femmes et le fait de verser des salaires peu élevés au personnel féminin de la maison. Les organisatrices ont réussi à obtenir de l'aide gouvernementale pour le refuge, mais elles ont eu moins de succès pour ce qui est de changer les mentalités sur la valeur du travail des femmes.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.