WOMEN’S FUTURE

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17916, 11 January 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

WOMEN’S FUTURE

The world’s richest man, Henry Ford, in his recently adopted role of seer and prophet, foretells that women will soon disappear from industry, because “they don’t want to think on mechanical and industrial matters,” and, as a matter of fact, do not want to think much about anything (says the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph). In an article published in the Pictorial Review, Mr Ford expresses the opinion that women, if they are w-ise, will return to their homes, where they have real power, are resourceful, and, in crisis, rise nobly to the situation. But girls are not of an inventive turn of mind, he says, and are more apt to take orders than to forge ahead for themselves.

In that respect, Mr Ford declares, they are more like the working man, who will always prefer a sure and comfortable routine to the responsibility of directing industry. Women find it hard to make decisions, be cause to do so takes experience, which they lack. Concluding his views on the weaker sex, Mr Ford adds that men and women must learn to work together rather than pull against each other, as they do to-day. Complete partnership, in which men and women submerged the right of individuality and self-expression, would create a new power.