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THE NEW - WOMAN,

MALE EGOISM:

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only important function for which she was adjudged capable reached its lowest level, and a stupid repression acted dis astrously on the physical and, spiritual Sbe Welfare of herself and children. had not, and has not now, the dignity af legal parentage, a somewhat dawisa action, one would imagine, on the part of men to enslave the very motherhood they urge women to exalt as their only Whips and sphere of social worth! chains could not have ronde the servility more complete, Suggestion is a powerful ychological factor, and women beenma hshat they were taught they ought to be.

[UY FARY ADELAIDE BROADHURST, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL LEAGUE]" It is a startling fact in the life of a nation that a few figures can suddenly bring it face to fac with one of the most far-reaching problems that confront it. Yet that has happened. The simple census statement that the women of Great Britain now outnumber the men to the extent of soine 1wo millions

Who can my that to "emerge from this roused an apprehensive interest which is everywhere seeking a somewhat clamor is not to become a New Woman" [ ous expression, whether of fear or hope means a fundamental change in the very That the statement embodies a difficult basis of her pxistence, the whole differ ence between "a free being and a slave. problem for the community there can he no manner of doubt, but I venture, at The struggle, acute for fifty years, is the outset, to assert that the knottiestne of the most outstanding happenings point of the whole entanglement, as well in our history. Once given education her as the chief factor making for my de natural-powers have quickly evolved as one by one the gates of opportunity have pression, lies in the state of mind in- dicated by the two words that have been been thrown open to her persistence, till put forward to describe this outstanding she has finally proved herself the equal social fact. On all sides is heard the of man in every sphere of work that mat wall,two million superfluous women ters. She knows now that given power Superfinous! Truly this is the element to choose her own life and cast off the of grin humour that gives light and helated conventions that still linger as shade to the most desperate situation. a legacy from an ill-conceived past, given Who would have thought that in the all the happiness and well-being that great struggle of women for emancipa- comes from successful work; she can never tion during those tense years before the be a failure, but, on the contrary. with arresting events of 1914. when the male body, mind, and spirit free to develop, ego was slowly drawn through the pros coss of capitulation to reason and the stress of circumstance, the lessons then driven in should have become so deeply obscured Who could have believed that the pre-eminent worth to their country shown by women during the Great War should so quickly have been forgotten? What tragic irony is involved in the astounding fact that many men have realised not at all the deep significance of these tremendous happenings.

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ณ unity. only trifles with them, plays with them humours and flatters them." He did not realise that these "children" could be a source of such harm to the State that the enormity of the evil is not even yet understood.

It is precisely in the continuance of this kind of male egoism that any dan- A revolution in the world's outlook gers from the present conditions arise. But the mills of chivalry grind slowly, towards woman, her.evolution into poli- tical and spiritual freedom, with all that and prejudice dies hard. Newnham is it implies, and and the consequent emer- celebrating her fiftieth birthday, yet to gence of the "New Woman," have pass. women who brilliantly qualify the degree ed them by The crust of sex prejudice is not yet granted. Only a few days ago is still unbroken, and the armour of male the editor of an important paper and egoisin not only still unpenetrated, but an M.P. published an article on his utter innbility to see why a woman should go even now a determining factor, whether further in political life than the mere consciously or unconsciously, of the atti exercise of the vote. "I don't like it. tude of too many men towards the other It doesn't ring true," he saïvely writes,

For agongst the fundamental changes that these two great straggles and thank Hearen forvently that women must intvitably bring about, none can 50 rarely have the judicial spirit! What have more profound influence. than there we to think of the fact that the old forces set free by the liberation of deliberately the bill, at this stage even male ego is sill potent enough to block not yet passed into law, drawn up to give women their legal right to be mothers of men." Strangely enough, This generation is too near the sub-however, it is a mixture of generosity jection to realise fully all that is in and prejudice that blinds men, and volved. Fortunately, many of the true women also, to the real evil. There are and honest thinkers of both sexes have so many of both sexes who not above grasped much of the significance, and artificial convention and law that they with it a new impetus and inspiration fail to realise either the sex prejudice to life and action. It is none the less or its resultant limitations, and hence true that to large numbers it means little arises the apparent apathy and indiffer or nothing. Far from seeing all that it ence of a large section of the public. Yet implios for the future of the race, if in the rooted idea of the inferiority of they do not actually deny any real re- women lies the debasement of the "sex, pression of women's powers. they hold and there is real danger that the persist- with amazing confidence the belated con- ence of the prejudice, together with the and the conse-

woman.

DOCTRINES OF SURJECTION. "

viction that the conditions of her life and overplus of two ties, means that")

TBE NEW SPIRIT.

education a hundred years ago were morequent economic *** natural” than now; that, in spite of an increased social debasement is pos any opportunities she may have wrested sibly worse than anything in the past. from the unwilling male, she is still the The enormity of the evil fies in the fact same in all essentials; that any change that a double standard of morality is due to greater freedom and education is kept alive with all its terrible, results to purely superficial; that, in fact, there the race and its worse than degradation does not exist, and never will, new to the women of the race. Men could women" in the sense of free individuals only sacrifice in the way they do beings with a new social value of so funda- so low in their estimation as to allow mental a kind

to make them a deter of their imposing a fate upon them worse influence in the

constructive than death to the individual with discass of the nation. That some women and degeneracy to the race. There is should still hold these views is not sur- indeed danger lurking in these depths prising, for-as in the eighteenth century greater and more far-reaching than the leisured classes of the Halifaxes, and ravages of war. Chesterfields, the notorious passages in the writings of whom were a naked ex- pression of the worst features of women's slavery to "the artificial conventions of law, religion, and man-with a few not able exceptions women are still taught to believe that dependence "on" man's opinions is decorous, that training to useful work is unbefitting their class, and in positions of real potential in. fluence, are left to potter in political life as mere echoes of their man, or, evan "safer," expend their energies on the fringe of charitable effort, still, as idle rich parasites on society, and as com- pared with the living, growing masses of their sex, superfluous" and a con- sequent menace. But that large numbers of men with opportunities for a broad outlook on the potential social and polis tical value of new forces should persist in the old prejudices of sex attitude based on inherent male egoism, simply shows that in the last fifty years of women's fight for freedom they have been out dist need and left behind by the very sex to whom they have grudged independence of political or spiritual butlook, and for whom they prefer the primeval notion of existence merely as mates for them- Falves. There is the crux of the problem, the theatening of tragedy to the hapless

two million,

In this will be found, the reason why so many of them do not wish to marry why the question riges in their minds. Is it worth the risk 1" when husbands are still autocrats and wives mere echoes, and where conditions in many homes are such.us would break the spirit of man in a month.."

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If the nation is to solve its problem, let men face these facts in all their grim reality, and cee to it that they play their part in the future as men.

Only then can the new spirit in women meet and solve its own problem. But there must be freedom, space for the exercise in for women of all her faculties, room broad experience, the exercise of judg. ment and decision, the growth of charac ter. Is a Sex Disqualification (Removal) Bill to be made of no effect by the tyranny of amal! bureaucrats, who choose to draw up regulations restricting the opportunity and work of women? trade unions to be allowed to organise the expulsion of women on the ground of sex from many kinds of work, and prevent their training in many more! It is bad enough that women should have to face individual hostility or jealousy in men. It is well-nigh hopeless to struggle against organised opposition. Can any man or body of men, realising that two-million-women-or-more--will- have no opportunity of home and mother- hood, refuse them the right to work 1 | It will

ba hard struggle, only possible with the help and co-operation of men, but women have gained so much that we have very hope they will win in this struggle too. The future is woman's, and it is to the future she looks alike for her opportunitice and her great re- ward. She has a right to claim an open door in every kind of wars, a right to the education and training that will fit her for that work. Her old cloistered virtues of meekness and submission will cense to be virtues if they leave no room in ker for courage, energy, and power to help the race and stabilise her own character.

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"We are a people of great commen seare," said the Prince of Wales in his most recent speech, and common sense implies a frank recognition of facts and

It is clear, then, that those who admit no essential change in the modern woman have a complete and biassed misunder standing of the effects and psychology of subjection. The seventeenth, eighteenth, and part of the nineteenth centuries im posed on women limitations of so drastic a kind as to make impossible their spirit to give and take." If at this development as individuals, and nothing critical time in our history men and can be Burer than this, that just so far women net up to that, the one conting as they fell short of that they were the eff his egoist and sex prejudice, the other Jess and not the more natural it is gaining in- freedom, and strength, there only by frea and disciplined growth that will be no need for apprehension, and any-ving being attains to the full value what he now becen mrat unfortunately. of its nature. Undisciplined, her only stigmatized as "superfluous" will be claim to consideration sexual, deprived the new and necessary element in the by law of proprietary rights, taught neevolution of the world's progress.--Daily work save the most inferior, with no Telegraph

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of a free person in a free State, could In my opinion the speech of Perth- any subjection, even though in many, shire represents modern English at its cases camouflaged by generosity, be more most correct, taking an average through. complete? By these very limitations the all das Professor J. W. Hackas.

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