WOMEN ON EDUCATION BOARDS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 31, 28 May 1914, Page 4

WOMEN ON EDUCATION BOARDS

A modest suggestion a few weeks ago by Miss Edith Howes was that the membership of education boards should include women. She gave irrefutable arguments for that opinion; indeed, outside the unreasoning hostility of blind prejudice, we cannot guess what any serious opponent of that desirable alliance would say. Happily (says the Wellington “Post”) Mr G. Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools, is among .those who favor the inclusion of women in the management of educational institutions, and he does not stay his democratic feet at the threshold of the University Senate. On Saturday night Mr Hogben said he thought that women graduates would be able to help the Senate. Why not ? We believe that it is not only desirable, but actually necessary, to have women of intelligence in the personnel of all educational governing, bodies. There is n theory that woman is not man’s equal at large administrative work, but she may be his superior at detail. We are not concerned now with that notion, which is uncertain. M e do know definitely that women are capable of doing much good work for the schools and colleges, and the lack of their aid on the controlling bodies is a misfortune.