THE PRACTICAL SEX

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 13

THE PRACTICAL SEX

; SHAW ON WOMEX

(From VThe-Post's" Representative.) LONDON,-7th November.

Speaking at a house-warming luncheon given by "Time and Tide," Mr. G. B. Shaw explained why, in his view, women so often succeed when they invade realms hitherto regarded as sacred !to men. -

His reasons are that while men are inveterate gossips, women, always impatient, are eager to get on ,with the job. Men, Mr.'Shaw insisted, " will' sacrifice everything rather than make themselves unpleasant, but women will jmake themselves nasty at the slightest I stroke, and that is the secret-of getting things done.

Men, he went on, were not really Jiard working. The reason why they loved! to get. into politics and on to managements, and to run boards, was because they were extraordinarily fond of gossip—the kind, of gossip'that went on and on and on. In order to keep this up it was necessary to keep women out of newspaper offices, out of Parliament, and away from public bodies. They knew women would want to get things done, and men.•were saved this trouble by talking and talking and talking. Ho had served on a. public body, and knew. The natural view of man was that the world was the place' for him to exercise his imagination an&: his faculties, and that women should1 remain at home and should bear children and bring fresh men into the world.

Men became blinded by that tradition, and the fact of the matter was that while they were sitting gossiping they thought they were really doing the work. Then women . got on these bodies, and a check was put on the gossip.

_ "When you wanted to adjourn," continued Mr. Shaw, "women wanted to go on. That showed that they had no party spirit. They voted on what they thought ought to be done, and so shower 1 that they had no political sense."