WOMEN EXCEED MEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 9

WOMEN EXCEED MEN

LARGE SURPLUS IN ENGLAND NOVELIST PREDICTS SEX WAR LONDON, June -1. Mr. Gilbert Frankau, the wellknown novelist, in an article in the ['.veiling News entitled "The Maiden's Over," predicts a sex war as tho result of the prosonl monogamous system, when there are two million more females than males in England.

"An unmated woman's nature," he writes, "is like a steam loller. If it is sufficiently compressed it will 'explode. Britain's surplus women have not yet exploded, but there is a rattling of the safety-valve which is proved by their energy, health, sheer vitality and physique displayed on the tennis court niid stage and in the office, kitchen and mill.

"If the sitter on the safety-valve is that most ghastly of modern phenomena, the Jackadiasieal, lacklustre, Oxford-trousered, Socialistspouting, mealy-mouthed, ukulelestrumming modern boy; the end of the sex war can be accurately prognosticated. He will have to bow to the wishes of two millions of modern girls, nearly all craving, consciously and subconsciously, tho job of matehood for which nature has mainly equipped them, unless the surplus maidens prefer to refuse duugainy with ihe modern bov.'

The 1001 census showed 1,5,728,013 males and 16,700,230 females in England and Wales —a surplus of 1,070,019. The figures in 10.11 were 17,445,(ii)S and 18,024,884 —a surplus of 1,170,27.6—and in 1021, 18,082,220 and 10,803,022—a surplus of 1,720,802.