Mixed Families
[NTO a radio world which frequently canvasses the "problems of women’"e.g., The Rights of Women, The Duties of Women, Are women fully emancipated yet? Do women take sufficient part in public life? Do women have a fair. share of the family income, etc.?the talks of Vera McShane come with a breath of sweet reason. The talk of the consciously emancipated emphasises the common humanity of the men and women while it tends to ignore sexual differences. Vera McShane, on the other hand, addresses her talks to the mothers of mixed families, and aims at explaining the differénces in the rate of development between boys and girls which is already marked several months before birth, and which is reflected in natural interests, such as games, and in specific abilities. Her emphasis on the many and varied differences between the sexes comes as a welcome change. Is it the forerunner of a re-orientation of the emancipated, which will carry no. taint of the "masculine protest?" Or ‘will Vera McShane be regarded as a fifth
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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176Mixed Families New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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