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Market, Dep. 720
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WHEN WOMEN ENTER THE GOVERNMENT.
QUITE UP TO THE JOB!
But Brst women will have to en- ter the Government
NEGROID SCULPTURE.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SIDE BY SIDE.
NEW LONDON GALLERY. I have seen it suggested that Eng- and will one day be governed by
Those interested in the art of an all-woman Cabinet, says Via- It is often said by those who dis-primitive peoples and its influence countess Rhondda in a press inter like the idea of women Cabinet on the work of what are known as Presumably the idea comes Ministers, that women can never the modern Fances," had an ex- view from the realisation that women level up with men, in the larger cellent
at 13, St. opportunity now vote on level terms with men, action of life, because women are James's place, W., for comparing and, in the aggregate, slightly out-softer in fibre, too compassionate, the masthetic butlook and technical number men.
slipshod, made over-sentimental by skill of the ancient creators with I do not wish to suggest that the maternal instinct for the rough the decadent vision and clumsy carefully trained and selected all-business of holding their own with methods of their present-day fol woman Cabinet could not governmen and in the battle of life and lowers. as well as a carefully trained and affairs. choser. all-man Cabinet and better But this is chiefly a matter of than most average Cabinets, many education and experience owing to of whose members are not, in fact, the way girls are usually brought selected primarily on account of up. Character-forming in youth is their efficiency.
no less effective with girls than with boys.
Still, the idea of an all-woman Cabinet attracts me as little as does an all-man Cabinet. If it were deliberately selected on ac count of its sex it would be the negation of the vital principle for which women have fought and still are fighting-the fundamental prin contrary. 8.57
riple of equality.
Shamchan...Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.01 10.35 1127 11,48 3.09 4.89 5.47 8.18 6.40 6.50 Shengahni. Dep. 7.25 8.13 8.16
Fanling
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1. Dep. Tipo Market Dep. 7.40 8.28
11.55 3.15 644| 5,54 | 6.25
12.01 3.30 4.50 5.58 28.113.31 8.00 6.08
Taipo
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10.4- .10.47 10.57- 11.01 11.14
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11.26
12.30 8,49 5,17! 6.24 12.43: 401 | 5.298,39
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The theory that women are an in- ferior sex designed by nature for sheltered and protected existence is pure nonsense. Events during and since the war alone proved the But women must be given full opportunities to develop and grow mentally and spiritually. Already the experiment which be I believe that, given equal train- gan in 1913 has made extraordin- ing, education, and opportunity,ary progress. The changes which
At the London address given, Mr. Sydney Burney showed a re- markable collection of sculpture, including samples dating from the early Sumerian art of about 3,500 B.C., to the bronzes of Mr. Aristide Maillot, Mr. Jacob Epstein. and Mrs. Dora Gordine, whose work alone compares favour ably with that of their old-world prototypes.
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AT 8.17 9.02 11.09 113212.07 12.49 4.07 1,95 5.44 7.00 7.20 7.59. there is little to choose between men we accept in 1935 as commonplaces quickens even the most fantastic and women so far as capacity is would have seemed fantastic in pre-images On exhibition and one's concerned; and for that reason Ifranchise days. : am not going to subscribe to the view that if the nation were comb ed for the twenty best brains and characters to form a government, not a single man would be found umong the resultant collection."
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Equal franchise notwithstanding, women have scarcely begun to be granted ever a measure of equal cpportunity in business, industrial, and professional life. It is not a question of proving their fitness for posts. In many cases they are de- liberately not given a chance.
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A good deal of the legislation of to day, for instance, operates either to keep women out of a prosperous branch of industry, or from the more highly paid jobs..
One cannot blame an employer if he regards women as a nuisance in his business when he is compell ed by law to treat them differently from men.
Women in the Civil Service are liable to dismissal on marriage.
Then a wife had no ground for divorce if her husband were only faithleen. The age of consent in cases of indecent assault remain ed at the appalling age of thirteen. Women were banned from the legal profession..
Expression in each piece is in- tense. The suggestion of barbaric force and splendour is wonderfül. ly suggested in the superb head from Benin, with the coral head- No woman might sit on the dress and neck decoration (29), beach of magistrates, or onThe photograph (the original has jaries. Sex prejudice prevented been sold) of an amazing horno and the passage of legislation to pro rider which reminds one of tect a mother from the risk of Donatello's Gatamelata at Padua unskilled attendance at child-and Verrocchio's. Colleoni" in birth. The claim to equal guar Venice. dianship of children was ridicul-
ed.
Women were debarred from the
degrees and other privileges of be bad at the Ministry of Agricul the universities of Oxford and ture. Quite a lot of women go in Cambridge. The mere idea of for farming and cattle-breeding A woman Minister of women in the House of Commons these days. made the strongest man tremble. Health might not be bad, either. Women have a fair for nursing This was the situation when a limited franchise was granted in and child welfare." And so on.
But political forces move
else Governments--nothing
will: and women had abruptly become a political force.
1918.
A capable woman going in for public health work finds that she has to choose between a career or Therefore the situation changed marriage after taking her medi-rapidly. In the course of the en
decade, the cal degree, for if she marries she suing
injustices has to resign. Women teachers anomalies, and cruelties I have are also usually dismissed on mentioned were removed, pae by marriage.
one.
I fear this will be the first reac tion when women enter the Cabinet But it will pass, and must pass, doubt whether these implied funds- mental differences between the mas culine and feminine brain exist. doubt even, all things being equal, if the difference in basic character is as great as is generally suppos
Naturally, there will always be The old generalisations like The entry of women into the dependent women, and women who "Woman's place is in the home "Government will see a similar ac prefer cex privilege to sex equality. die hard. But the post-war generaceleration in the removal of those But this is not a thing peculiar to It is not a sex pheno tion are realising more and more artificial barriers that still hold women. that intelligent and able women women from the equal opportunity menon.
As Mr. Bernard Shaw re-
ed that there are men who are just
can happily and successfully com- in all walks of life which is the minded us recently, the war show bine the work they are fitted for only road to true equality. with marriage and the duties of motherhood; that they can at mar-
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as willing to be kept by women as Inevitably, I suppose, there will any women ever were by men. ringe into their lives, as men have be early discussions on the eart of question of the individual, not of always done, and not necessarily post women ought to have in the sex. sacrifice either work to marriage or Cabinet. One foresees this sort of But I foresee that before a Prime pick marriage to work.
thing: They'll give Mrs. So-and-Minister will be able to Eventually we shall cut through So the Home Office, I expect. She women for bis Cabinet. as freely' the tangle of confused thought and wouldn't do at the Foreign Office as he picks men, society will have obsolete tradition, and get this a man's job, that: So is the Trea-to let go its immemorial view of business of work and marriage as sury Women are never any good women as sex incarnate, and ac it relates to women straightened at finance. But a woman might not 'cept them as individuals first and
(Continued on next Column). women afterwards.
out.
Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(January 18th.) Football:-First Division: R.A. *. Queen's; Police . South China. "Getting Macdona "Players: Married," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Love Hungry." World Theatre: 5.10 and 9.15, The Humming Bird" at 2:30 and 7.13, Chinese picture The Spiders." Star Theatre: "Dangerous Money."
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Queen's Theatre: "The Enemy." World Theatre: 6.10 and 9.15, "Dangerous Money; 2:30 and 7.15, Chinese pieture" The Spiders."
Star Theatre: "Proud Flesh. Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula, Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Friday,
(January 18th.) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helent May Institute, 10:30 am.
Queen's Theatre: "The Enemy," World Theatre: 5.10 and 9.15, "Dangerous Money"; 2.30 and 7.13, Chinese picture "The Spiders."
Symphony Orchestra (HM.S. Hermes) Selections of Classical and Star Theatre:. "Proud Flesh."" Popular Music. Lane, Crawford's
Ten Dances H.K. Hotel and Restaurant, 5.15 to 7.15 p.m. Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King
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Thursday. (January 17th) Hockey Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. Recreio, King's Park, & p.m...
Macdons Players: You never can tell," Theatro Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Cricket: University v. Volunteers
Saturday. (January 19th.)
Royal H.K. Yacht Club 8th Chinm- pionship Race.
Cricket:First Division: Royal University, Chinese v Navy . IR.C., Craigengower t Kowloon. Second Division: 'Royal Navy v. I.R.C., Craigengower v. University, Hong Kong C.C. . R.A.5.0., Re areia. Royal Engineers.
Football:-First Division: K.OS.B. . Queen's, Chinese_v.. Royal Artillery, Kowloon v. Re creio, Police . Club, Navy . South China. Second Division: South China "A". Navy, K.O.S.B. v. South China B," Small Unite vi Queen's, Royal Artillery . Chinese, Eastern v. University, R.A.F. v. Recreio, St. Joseph's . Kowloon.
Entries close for Chess Champion- ship.
Entries close for H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournaments.
World Theatre: "Hot Water." Queen's Theatre: "The Enemy," Star Theatre: "The Loves of Pharaoh."
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