WOMEN AT THE HELM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 64, 10 April 1909, Page 4

WOMEN AT THE HELM.

•;MEN ARE TAKING A BACK SEAT. • A representative woman is foremost fto-day in nearly every one 0/ the learned professions, and in almost every ■department of human endeavor and industry throughout the world (.-says a Home paper). Dr. Gordon, oj' London, has just .been appointed the lirst Lady Inspector .of Prisons. In the arena of medicine the numbers ■are particularly notable, and Dr. Elizabeth lilaekwell, the pioneer of medical •women, has just celebrated her eighty--eighth birthday at .Hastings, i Aliic. Gaussel, M.D., was appointed director of a. clinic of Moatpelier Uniiver&ity the other <lav. it is the lirst (time such an ollice has ever been given •to a woman.

1 MEDICINE ATTRACTS HUNDREDS. I Mile. Sarah Broida has been made ship's physician on a packet-boat of the •Mixta Steamship Company, plying between Marseilles, Africa, and Sicily. Mine. Louise Briand and Mine. Jeanne Menard, both graduate doctors of medicine, act as ship's physicians 011.two of itlie largest Mediterranean steamers. 1 More than six hundred women are •reported to be studying medicine at French universities, l'aris alone is said ,to have one hundred women practitioners, most, of them holding oilieial •places of more or less importance. In the lield of hcienee. Madame Curie, -who helped her husband to discover .radium, has just been elected a corresponding member of the St. I'etersburg Academy of Sciences. The legal battle-ground has been .thoroughly occupied 'by the lair in.vaders. Mile. Blanche Azoulav, who !s •the lirst woman to be admitted to practise law in Algiers, has taken the oath in the Court of Appeals. 1 To commemorate the occasion the (counsel of the Bar of Algiers organised an elaborate ceremony. The barristers ,were all present, and the leader of the (Bar made a speech welcoming Ml.c. A/.oulay to their ranks. MANV DELIGHT JN EXPLORATION 1 .

For some time women have been emiploved as assistants to the police ia Stockholm, and it i* claimed that the rSUters' have been a great success. They are particularly useful in the surveillance of women and children who happen to be in trouble, and it is sanl (that they are tactful in making enquiries into the antecedents of such. There are, of course, many 'women, like Miss Charlotte Mansfield, who deilHit in travel and exploration, and one .of them, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, is now in Mexico as field director ol the ReidCroeker Expedition, which is excavating .the .Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. hi one sphere alone woman does not nhinc. There are few, if any, actual inventors among her