THROUGH WOMAN’S EYES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 6

THROUGH WOMAN’S EYES

CONSERVATISM OF MAN

MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALANJ3FKS

“No cloubt you Avill judge m<? somewhat of a feminist,” said Miss E. Andrews, a New Zealand delegate at the recent Pan-Pacific Women’s C'onferenet., uuring the- course of' a lecture at Palmerston North. “I will not say tout woman is ttie equui of man. We were born different and each has ins or Her functions to perform m the world.

“Toii will agree with me when 1 say that women are less conservative than men,' 1 Miss Andrews con-

tinned. “It* is so with traditional procedure. A man says of an institution 200 years old, ‘it must be all right’; a woman says, ‘Jt is time it was altered.’ That is just the difference. Women have to turn to and elea

n up the mess we are in to-day. It is often said that the heart is a? prood as the head.

“A lot of harm lias been done by the oft-repeated phrase ‘Woman’s place is the home.’ We are only usiing it as a buffer for our own laziness. When we> shut- the door we shut, out ail the problems of the present day. We have to go out into tiie world and help the men to tackle their work. “Women’s organisations are a power for good throughout the world. The conference had a message, for New Zealand women. Here wo are in a. quiet happy backwater, and live sheltered lives ;* but we are inclined to sit back in complacency. It is for us to create an attitude oi J international thinking—to think in terms of humanity, to look outwards instead of inwards. We must serve if we are to justify our creation.''