The prolonged discussion "What! Gan We Do with Our Sons?" which has been carried on in the columns of the '"Times" has started a parallei symposium on "Our Daughters' Futures." That it is a serious problem is undeniable and much thoughtful attention is being spent upon it.
he solution of the problem of the superfluous woman seems at first sight easily settled by oversea setulement and the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women has done much in that respect having sent 1,051 women to the Dominions during 1921. Much more must be done however before women settlers will be going out in equal numbers with the boys and young men to fill the empty spaces overseas. The evil effect of encouraging men to emigrate alone and thus depriving both the men who go and the women who stay behind of the opportunity for happy mating is immediately felt in the social system.
Sti it must be remembered that even in the Dominions there is at present much unemployment among women as well as men, and also a shortage of homes for the new set-tiers. The increased cost of travelling also keeps many at home. David C. Lamb, Commissioner of the Salvation Army, says that the Army could at once send 10,000 women to Australia if the governments concerned would pay the bare expenses of travel. It is the policy of the Army's migration work to send out more women than men.
Suggestions for futures range from home-making and the primitive arts of cooking, washing, and stitching to the professions of art and medicine. 'Traveller' points out that there are many Englishmen in the Dominions, Europe and the United States who are unmarried simply because they do not know English girls, and proposes a. new philanthropy for bringing together suitable companions and promoting matrimonial: alliances.
A Mr. Cameron cries out against the Sex Disqualification Act which he feels is largely responsible for the "submerged percentage of decayed and destitute _spinsters." The matron of the Mothercraft Training Society pleads for educated women who-will take up the important profession of infants and children's nurses. "Dame Catharine Furse says girls should receive the same definite training for usefulness as do boys.
An anonymous writer suggests medicine as a profession in which
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