On This Day, 3 October 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Thursday 3 October 1918

WOMEN AS SOLDIERS

Miss Lind Af Hageby, speaking to the Women’s Freedom League on “Sex and Social Evolution,” yesterday, said that the main object of feminism was not to kill off men, not to establish the rule of women, but simply to restore the balance by supplying the antidote to masculinism. Masculinism, the combative side of humanity, was seen having its last mad riot in the present war.

The psychological expert of Harvard University had recently declared that women would really make better soldiers than men, because of a certain rather wicked toughness that made them able to endure hardships longer than men could!