THE WEAKER SEX?
Through sheer force of habit we still refer to women as " the weaker sex." But to-day there is tho dawning of a misgiving that the phrase is a libel rather than a label. Sir Max Pemberton frankly faces the facts in the Sunday Dispatch, states the writer. A girl, he points out, brings down a thief with a Rugby tackle. A postmistress drives off would-be bandits. Women swim the Channel. Is there any truth in the suggestion that modern women have less physical power or courage than men? Thero are points with which Sir Max Pemberton is obliged to deal with more truth that fact. The demonstrated increase, for instance, in the sizo of women's hands and feet. It is necessary to suffer in order to be powerful. In physique women have jumped ahead while man's bodily development has marked time. But—and this is an interesting point—is not somo of women's 'physical courage due partly to a trust in man's old-time chivalry. Does the plucky girl instinctively. rely on the fact that even a burglar is still reluctant, to hit back ?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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184THE WEAKER SEX? New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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