WOMEN AS JUDGES

Thames Star, Volume LIII, Issue 14023, 23 October 1919, Page 3

WOMEN AS JUDGES

We are ''to- ,have women magistrates, it would appear. Side by side with man, upon that hitherto Evelees 'bench, woman will sit in judgment, gays Elise Grange, in the London Etvening News. How Will this innovation aflect the administration, of the law 1?

Will woman in this sphere uphold the 'traditiom that she is of ;the gentler, ■weaker sex? Hardly so! She is not compassionate unto the wrong-doer as sucih. She will prove in this capacity to be an .avenging angelj. Ai woman Justice of the . Peace "will "not be pasily swayed! ,xl her deliberations (by. the ©motion of offenders. She can appraise their 1 worth, tiheir genuineness, far better ! than can. —or does—> the unemotional "stronger" sex. So, too, she ' will recognise intuitively when indiVidualst have "dressed" for their pa.it in the Court scene. How will the woman offender $>c viewed by her own sex? No* quite as harshly as some would have u/j Believe. .There is more esprit d© corps ; amongst the feminine sex of to-day 'than, at least, most men —and some [ women. —imagine. But a pretty face, ! pleading innocence or begging for leniency, wililj make little 'appeal. : Women will pass judgment ,on facts. A woman magistrate will not >\<o hard, but merely fair.