The Emancipation of Women

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 32

The Emancipation of Women

A Lively Discussion

T a recent meeting of the AfterDinner Club in London various writers, famous and otherwise, embarked -upon a discussion of that everlasting problem-should women be allowed to do as they please? Rosita. Forbes, who has never suffered from any. noticeable lack of freedom herself, declared that if women knew what they wanted to do, they should be allowed to do it. The trouble was that no woman could ever be depended on to want the same thing for two months at a time. Male opinion, as represented by such speakers as Beverley Nichols and Michael Arlen, seemed to agree unanimously that women had too many privileges. "Too many for their own happiness," quoted the author of "The Green Hat." "You can have too much of freedom, because nobody wants to keep you captive." With which cryptic saying we shall have to content ourselves. for the time being.