WOMEN IN 2011

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3843, 7 December 1936, Page 3

WOMEN IN 2011

AN INTERESTING FORECAST. Reading Pamela to-day I found myself wondering how: Richardson’s heroine would deport herself were she to awake in 1936 to find the “charming fair” fighting side by side with their men in Spain. Yet it is not only in Spain that women have abandoned petticoats for pistols . . . Shorts are symbolical. Women have cast away petticoats but—and this is a big But—many of us remain slaves to fashion and one word from Paris may shroud us again in flowing skirts. Trute, women aTe no longer' meek possessions of their menfolk, as in Pamela’s day; they make their own lives, and are free and independent. Yet we still allow clothes to cutter us up, and with many, marriage remains the foremost, if not the only, ambition. In 2011 these ideas will have vanished with the prejudices of the past. “Woman was made for the Cradle and Kitchen.” Man’s age-old attitude remains. With a thousand excuses they shut us out from the diplomatic service for chivalry’s sake, from the Church for conservative notions, from the Navy and Army in pretended respect for our weakness. Yet a woman has just flown alone across the Atlantic, and of their own freie will women are fighting in Spain. The next seventy-five years will open up all professions barred to women, and I believe we shall be free to work as wei will.—A Young Woman Winter in the Queen.