WOMAN'S REAL POWER.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3159, 20 April 1931, Page 7

WOMAN'S REAL POWER.

A great deal is being said and written in France nowadays concerning women's rights. It is being frequently pointed out by leaders of the feminist movement that the Frenchwoman is less favored than the women of other countries because she is not allowed to vote.

Mademoiselle Bohin, herself a feminist, who has just attended a feminist congress at Prague, has advised her fellow country-women to leave well alone and not to trouble too much about the vote (says "Sunday Times")} Her view is that feminism is a question of tact rather than one of politics, and she holds that although French women cannot vote they have more power and freedom than the women of most other countries. They can enter almost every profession—in fact, can be anything but judges—and they wield in every sphere a power which is all the greater because it is silent and unobtrusive. The Frenchwoman, she says, ought to be very pleased with her present situation, and ought to realise that her tact, her taste, and her refinement enable her to lead the Frenchman by the nose. She has remained feminine, and the very weaknesses of her sex strengthen her power over men. The powder-box, it appears, is more important than the ballot-box.