WOMEN IN SPACE
Sir,-Is it not time even the rigidly domesticated female discarded the cult of extreme complacency over her lack of comprehension of scientific affairs? You included quotes by housewives and a typist on the satellite story (Listener, October 25), which had no significance whatsoever, except as specimens of almost unbelievable vacuity. "What’s the point?" asked the typist (just like the Astronomer-Royal). And: "Women just don’t get excited about such things!" gloated the housewife, with sweeping inaccuracy. Well, they should. Many women, overseas, enjoy technical and scientific interests, many are fascinated by outer space phenomena. Intelligence is sexless. Even the standardised New Zealand housewife is not, in every instance, running to her sport-crazed hus»band for explanations of the atom, physics, relativity. Those still totally sunk in personal gossip, babies, and cook pots should wake up and realise the dawn of a new age when quality of mind may well matter more than routine breeding.
FEMINA
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 19
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157WOMEN IN SPACE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 19
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