WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
Women members have not been a conspicuous success in Parliament, states an English exchange, discussing the old and new Houses of Commons. They belong to two general types —those whose mental processes are like those of men and those who bring into politics qualities that are characteristically feminine.
To the first type belong Miss Susan Lawrence, who has not come back, and the Duchess of Atholl, who has. Both are women of remarkable mental gifts, but both are on tho dry side and bureaucratieally minded. Miss Susan Lawrence is Dot without humour and would have been a first-rate controversialist if she had not been spoilt by indistinctness and imperfect control of her voice.
Of the second, and probably move successful, type are Lady Astor (again returned) and Miss Jennie Lee, who was defeated. Miss Lee began her Parliamentary career with a. foolish rhodomontade, but she learnt much, and at the end she was worth hearing because her idiom was essentially feminine. Extreme as her views were, she will be missed. Miss Ellen AVilkinson, who is also missing, wrote better than she spoke.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 13
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WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 13
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