TOO MANY WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 112, 13 May 1924, Page 5

TOO MANY WOMEN.

NO CHANCE OF MARRIAGE. uutatzram or 5,i00,000. Aim mac mv tantntATiitc. (By Cable.—Pren Association.—Copyright.) ( LONDON, May 12. Sir Chiozza Money calls attention to Britain's increasing surplus of females, c For millions of women there is no chance d of marriage. p The female surplus in 1851 was * 600,000. It reached 1,400,000 by 1011, J and now was 2,100,000. The evil of the great excess of females was accentuated by man's increasing disinclination to marry. Loosening of morals is bound to result from excess of unmarried females. It is . merely stating the plain truth to nay ! [ that when some women lose hope of | regular ties they are tempted to accept.' irregular ones. This number is big! enough to exercise a profound influence I . on the marriage question. Another |' factor is the high cost of living combined . with the craze for dress, which is scan- i. dalously fostered among women of all classes. It is difficult for young men to marry , on their moderate incomes. Women in- ( crease the number of unmarried women , j by taking men's jobs. They are estab- ( lished in medicine, dentistry, law and banks. They are everywhere. Some of these prefer a bachelor existence. Others cannot expect to take men's places, thereby lowering the general j standard of men's remuneration, as well as a chance of finding husbands. Emigration of hosts of our young men in the near future will largely increase the excess of females. ' Miss Muriel Wrinch (Mrs. .T. W. Nicholson), a Fellow of Girton College, and an authority on physics, in an article in the "Sunday Pictorial," declares the ] new ideal of femininity must be built up. [. The education of woman must be conducted on new lines, fitting her to be an intelligent wife and mother, or an intelligent disciple of one of the profes-1 sions in which woman can excel owing) to special characteristics. The woman, of the future will be taught psychology | i instead of logic, and physiology instead lof mathematics. She will learn folkI lore, biology, and the care of children 1 instead of zoology, trigonometry, and Latin. The care of children will be put! on a more scientific basis, and the edu-1 cated intelligent mother, bringing brains | I and knowledge instead of merely instinct i to her work, will cease to be the domes- ! tic drudge and inefficient guardian of i children. The woman employed outside the home will be recognised as an ideal I nurse and teacher of young children. She ■ wilj be ft healer rather than a scientific I physician. She will be a kindergarten i teacher rather than a senior wrangler. Thereby a professional woman will excel in her own particular work.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)