"IT have the greatest respect for men," says Lady Astor, M.P., in "Pearson's," "'and I admire lots of their qualities; but, after all, they are only half mankind, and with the best will in the world man can't present the women's point of view.") 7 That there is & women's point of view she is sure. That is why, she suggests, more women M.P.'s are needed. There are, she thinks, many unnecessary and ridiculous handicaps from which women still suffer, and which only pressure from the women's side will put right.
"A great many people don't know, for instance, that a mother does not at present count as a parent in the eyes of the law. Thay seems rather a relic of the Stone Age, doesn't it? I hope we shall get that altered this Session.
"The double moral standard is, I believe, responsible for half the sin and evil in the world. I am sure that you won't get nearer a single standard so long as our laws are based on the double standard, and so long as the problem of immorality is considered a subject with which men alone should "That is the whole point of the agitation about jurywoman. Women feel it is those very cases involving women and children, however dreadful they may be, where women's point of view is needed as well as man's, if we are ever to get the problem solved."
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