THROUGH WOMAN’S EYES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 255, 23 September 1930, Page 8

THROUGH WOMAN’S EYES.

CONSERVATISM OF MAN,

MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALANDERS.

“No doubt you will judge me somewhat of a feminist,” said Miss E. Andrews, a New Zealand delegate at the recent Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, during the course of a lecture at Palmerston North last evening. “I will not say that woman is the equal oi man. We were born difterent, and each has "his or her functions to perform iu the world. “You will agree with me when I gay that women are less conservative than men,” Miss Andrews continued. t-lt fa so with traditional procedure. A man says of an institution 200 years old, ‘lt must be all right’; a woman says ‘lt is time it was altered, lhat is just the difference. Women have to turn to and clean up the mess we are in today. It is often said that the heart is as good as the head. “A lot of harm has been done by the Oft-repeated phrase ‘Woman’s place is the home.’ We are only using it as a buffer for our own laziness. When we shut the door wc shut out all the prohlems of the present day. We have to Co out into the world and help the men to tackle their .ork. “Women’s organisations are a power for good throughout the world. lhe conference had a message for New Zealand women. Here we are in a quiet happy backwater, and live’ lives- but we are inclined to sit hade in complacency. It is for «»*« create an attitude of international thinking to think in terms of. humanity, t<3 Jo outwards instead of inwards. We must B erve if we are to justify our creation.