HUMILIATING SLUR

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 9 April 1927, Page 10

HUMILIATING SLUR

BRITISH WOMEN AS DOMESTICS

(Per Press Association—Copyright

LONDON, April 7

“It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women are only useful in the Dominions as dramatics,” said Miss Wileman, founder of tjie Empire League for Overseas Settlement, addressing the Soroptimists’ Club. Miss Wileman complained that they were only invited to migrate as domestics, for which the women of the British professional classes were wholly unfitted, and it was detrimental to British prestige. Domestic work overseas was three times as heavy as in England. “It makes my blood boil,” added Miss Wileman, “to see American women flaunting luxurious wealth and sneering at the gently bred middleclass British women, over the Borae-, in Canada, as domestic drudges.”