“INTELLECTUAL WOMEN.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1924, Page 3

“INTELLECTUAL WOMEN.”

STRONG INDICTMENT. Miss Margaret Bondfield, a member of the 'Labour Government, has (says The Times) -been expressing candidly ;her views about “intellectual” women. She told the Independent- Labour Party Summer School that she thought a very strong indictment could 'be drawn up against the modern woman .in her attitude towards the important function -of home-making. -She held .entirely the contrary view.! She had very little patience with the woman who wanted to leave husband and children to the care of paid labour while she herself sought outside work because it .was more '“intellectual.” To her mind the ■ordering of -a home, the -bringing up of children, the insistence on bringing to the. home the best possible help that modern achievement* could provide required the most .sustained effort of service—that “infinite capacity for-taking pains” which amounted to genius. The. fact of the matter was that a large number of women was not fit to be home-makers because they had never addressed their minds to it as a vocation. They had regarded it far more :as merely an ■opportunity to satisfy inistinctive ,cravings, to “express themselves,’’ and -to have a husband who would give them a good time. -