SURPLUS OF WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 9

SURPLUS OF WOMEN.

-— : — o —' ; PROBLEM IN BRITAIN. A NEW IDEAL NEEDED. Australian and -N.Z.' Cable Association. (Reed. 5 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. Sir L. G. Ghiozza Money, the well-known author and journalist, calls attention to Britain's increasing surplus of females. For millions of women, he says, there is no chance of marriage. The female surplus in 1851 was 600,C00. It reached 1,400,000 by 1911, and was now 2,100,000. The evil of the great excess of females was accentuated by man's increasing disinclination to marry. ' " Loosening of morals is bound to result from an excess of unmarried females," he continues. "It is merely, stating a plain truth to say that when some women lose hope of regular ties they are tempted to accept irregular Ones. This number is big enough to exercise a profound - inifluence on the marriage question. "Another factor is the high cost of living, combined with the craze for' dress which is scandalously fostered among women of.'all classes. It is difficult for a young man to ; marry on a moderate income. Women increase the number of unmarried women by taking men's jobs, "hey are established in, medicine, dentistry. law, and the banks. They are everywhere. Spme of these prefer a bachelor existence. . They cannot expect to take men's places without therebylowering the general standard .of men's remuneration, as well as the chance' of finding husbands. The emigration of host's of our young • men -in ••- the ! near future will largely increase the excess of females." ' Miss Muriel Wrinch (Mrs. J. W. Nicholson), a Fellow of Girton College, and an authority on physics; in an'article in the Sunday Pictorial, declares that a new ideal of femininity must be built up. The education of woman must be conducted on now lines, fitting her to be an intelligent wife and mother, or an intelligent disciple of one of the professions in which woman can excel owing to her special characteristics. The woman .of the future will be taught psychology instead of logic, physiology instead of mathematics. She will learn folklore, biology, and the care of children instead of zoology, trigonometry, and. Latin.' The care of children will be put on a more scientific basis, and the educated, intelligent mother, bringing brains and knowledge instead of merely instinct 1 to her work, will. cease to be a domestic drudge and an inefficient guardian of children. The woman 1 employed outside the home will be recognised as an ideal nurse and teacher of young children. She will be a healer rather than a scientific physician. She will be a kindergarten teacher rather than a Senior I Wrangler. Thereby the professional woman 1 will excel in her own' particular work. ' '