ARDENT BRITISH FEMINIST
Death Of Professor Winifred Cullis
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyrighti LONDON, November 15.
Professor Winifred Cullis, an ardent feminist, died at her London home last night aged 81. At the end of World War II she toured 50.000 miles in America. Japan Malaya, Australia, New Zealand, and the Dutch East Indies to lecture on British women’s war work. Professor Cullis was a founder of the International Federation of University Women and a deputy-chair-man of the English-speaking Union. At Cambridge University she had to fight the passive resistance of men colleagues to study medicine, and was put on her own up in the lecture room gallery. She eventually became the first woman professor of physiology in Britain. and the first woman examiner of candidates for medical degrees.
Professor Cullis opposed the return of long skirts for women after World War I and condemned slimming. When she was 80 she described the three ages of woman as: “Young, getting on—and wonderful.’’
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 2
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