The speaker emphasized that [Chinese women since time imme rial had received education in lite Jary subjects and pointed out that history tells of a woman who lecture Jed before men at the Chinese Court '200 years before Christ. A woman also' completed the annals of the Han Dynasty and many of the sex flourished ax poets.
"The revolution of 1911 brought Jdccided "changes," she continued, "But the emancipation of the Chin" ese woman was a national and politi: cal phenomenon rather than" hange weevgh for woman's own have to thank the early mssionaries for starting our women on the path towards modern education, The early missionary schools, however, were few and it was not until the ' Dowager. Empress. issued edict in 1907, for opening girl schools that the education. of the sex became nationwide, Girls? mide dle schools started after the Revoluc tion, and in 1919 women's colleges became a reality.
"And now for the professions, Chinese women first went into teache staffs of all educa tic From the kindergar versity. Of Ginling College grad nates, sixty per cent. are engaged in teaching, many: serving as peinelpals Many Women Doctors: 1
"Aedicine and nursing ig another fie Yor Chinese women, thanks 0 the missions. I believe' there are 406, women on record as practising medicine at, present. Public healt and midwifery also have attracted many. un social and religious work we find many women workers, notably and among children. Another field activities among women beggars
is literature and journalism. Women lawyers still are' comparatively few, although' Shanghat has twenty-two iwactising the legal profession, "Then we find many in business and industry, as managers and fae-tory executives, and as. bankers, And there are wanton in every Gov ernment department. "A graduate of Ginling, for instance, la Resistant director of research for the: Banke of China, a Government institution.
"And as for married women; they ther. continue their own careers, or become home-builders, or help their "husbands" careers,"
Dr. Wu recently returned from Ameren, where she adbnned ea, sions of' the International of Women at Chicago, Mr. John S, Barr presided at yesterday's meeting. After the. main san open forum Was cone ducted.
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