Women Outclassed
HE Radio Editor at 1ZB the other night plunged into a survey of women’s achievements in the arts and professions-or rather their lack of
achievement. He ran through music, painting, and sculpture where they have not made a good showing, literature (where ‘they have done rather better than he allowed), law, medicine, politics, and so on. "Why not?" he kept asking. I was misled by his tone of voice into expecting that his answer would be a contented assurance that they had chosen nobler "and ‘less conspicuous spheres of influence, and was surprised when he ended up with a strong exhortation to them to make their opportunities and go to it. I used to think that the complete apologia for women’s failure in these fields was written in Virginia Woolf’s "A Room of One’s Own," until the 1945 medical journals featured a large-scale survey of intelligence of boys and girls. This seems to show that although the average ability of both Sexes is equal, there are more» males than females at either end of the seale. The Radio Editor appeared to jib at the idea of women judges. Was he influenced perhaps by Shakespeare who allowed Portia to give a thoroughly bad judgment on a shocking quibble? I have found that in real life most women seem to have much less respect than men for the*mere technicalities of law.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 345, 1 February 1946, Page 8
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231Women Outclassed New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 345, 1 February 1946, Page 8
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