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...voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...
...course, appreciate the self-sacrifice that prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists...
...press Mrs. Pankhurst said: "Lord Hugh is a back number." Declared Lady Rhondda, famed feminine industrialist: "Of course Lord Hugh is talking perfect nonsense...
Last week in London, Viscountess Rhondda, feminist, business woman, editress (with Rebecca West and others) of Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
Later the National Woman's Party held a rally with other feminists sympathetic with them, including Lady Rhondda, who withdrew her delegation from the Alliance. Lady Rhondda declared...