WOMEN IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 4

WOMEN IN INDIA

Invading The Professions

Speaking at the International Club of Victoria, Melbourne, recently, Mrs. Brijlal Nehru, Lahore, India, gave some interesting information regarding the life and work of women of India to-day, and the problems which confront them. Mrs. Nehru, who has worked for women’s interests for many years, said that great changes had occurred in the last 15 years. Women now were working in practically every, profession, and their numbers were increasing daily. Many of them became lawyers and barristers. Recently a woman was appointed to be a judge in one of the Indian States. A great many studied medicine at the Medical College at Delhi. x Mrs. Nehru said that there was a' great scope for women doctors in India, for no woman would let a male doctor attend to her, with the rare ex-' ception of a few of the more modern girls. In marked contrast to the popularity of the medical* profession for women, that of nursing was strangely unpopular, although gradually it was obtaining more followers. Most of the nursing in India was done by Eurasians and Christian Indians. Birth-control had made little progress in India, Mrs. Nehru said, although clinics were established at Madras and Mysore. It was opposed by .Manatma Gandhi and religious bodies.