BRITISH WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7

BRITISH WOMEN

GREAT EXCESS OVER MEN MORAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM EFFECT ON THE PROFESSIONS By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. London, May 11. Sir Leo Chiozza Money draws attention to Britain’s increasing surplus of females. For millions of women, ho says, there is no chance of marriage. The female surplus in 1851 was 600,000; it reached 1.400,000 in 1911, and is now 2,100,000. The evil of a great excess of females is accentuated by man’s increasing disinclination to marry. Loosening of morals is bound to result from the excess of unmarried females. “I am merely stating the plain truth when I say 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 on the marriage question. Another factor is the high cost of living, combined with the craze for dress, which is sedulously fostered among women of all classes. It is difficult for a young man to marry on a moderate income. Women increase the number of unmarried women by taking men’s jobs. They are established in medicine, dentistry, the law, and banks. They are everywhere. Some of these prefer a bachelor existence. Women cannot expect to take men’s places and thus lower the general standard of men’te remuneration, and also to find husbands. The emigration of hosts of our young men in the near future will largely increase the excess of females.”—-Sydney “Sun” Cables. NEW IDEAL OF FEMINITY EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE London, May 11. Miss Muriel Wrinch, in an article in the “Sunday Pictorial,” declares that a new ideal" of feminity must be built up. The education of woman must be conducted along new lines to fit her to be an intelligent wife and mother, or an intelligent disciple of one of the professions in which woman can excel owing to her special characteristics. The woman of the future will be taught psychology instead of logic, and physi.ology instead of mathematics, and will learn folklore, biology, and child-care instead of zoology, trigonometry, and Latin. The car© of children will be put on a more scientific basis, and an educated and intelligent mother, bringing brains and knowledge instead of merely instinct to her work, will cease to be a domestic drudge and an inefficient guardian of her children. Women employed outside the home will be recognised as the ideal nurse and teacher of young children, and will be a healer rather than a scientific physician; a kindergarten teacher rather than a senior wrangler. By these means professional women will excel in their own particular work.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BIRTH CONTROL DUTY OF PUBLIC BODIES London, May 11. A deputation, including Mr. H. G. Wells and Mrs. Bertrand Russell, asked Mr. J> Wheatley, Minister of Health, to remove the embargo against giving information relating to methods of birth control at maternity centres. Mr. "Wheatley replied that a distinction must be drawn between blowing access to knowledge and its actual distribution. Nobody would seriously maintain that access to knowledge should be forbidden; but public opinion on the subject was not definite enough to allow State or municipal undertakings to do mor© than indicate where knowledge was obtainable. —Sydney “Sun” Cables.