WOMEN BROADCASTERS
Women who broadcast are “swanky, superior, condescending,” say the women who listen (according to a report in the Sunday Dispatch of a conference at Leeds last month, arranged by North Regional officials to diseuss British Broadcasting Corporation talks. The women delegates were the principal critics of their sex. Here are some of their views:—Mrs D. Gadsden, the Newcastle housewife, who has broadcast twice: “There is no doubt the microphone is unkind to women. When I was talking even my mother did not know me. I was too refined.” Miss J. E. Green, Gorton headmistress: “ In a questionnaire which I took about school talks among the children, 13 votes were for women’s voices and 59 for men. One girl said women on the air were too 1 swanky.’ ” Mr S. Thorp, principal of Grantham Technical Institute: " I approached 500 students, aged 15 to 50. Not one supported women speakers. The reason is that women approach the microphone in a superior manner.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 3
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