THE SILENT WOMAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 13

THE SILENT WOMAN.

Women's inability to argue a point and .speak up for themselves was severely commented upon by tho secretary of the Tailors' ; TJniori in' a Sydney Court last week (writes •"Cristina" in the "Australasian"). He said that among the many hundreds of Sydney' "tailoresses, not one could stand up in,the men's councils and fight for her sex on ,a:_wiiges board in the tailoring trade. The judge conceded that the secretary's remark might be truo of tailoresses, and of many other women, but he was of opinion that some women were not to be easily dismayed, for general servants could always manage to speak up for themselves—oven when not wanted to. "Somo married women can argue pretty well, too," lie ' said mildly. -The judge then suggested that a tailorcss. qualified by her married life to argue ".till all's blue" (or words to that effect should bo represented on tho wages board. But tho secretary didn't see. the forco of that, and the judge agreed that " women couldn't do anything unless a man was in the vicinity to take their part."