WOMEN'S MINDS
Sta,—I read with interest Elizabeth Dunn's article in your issue of December 24th and also Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's reply. I am afraid that none of Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's points prove that women have advanced on any but the material level ; their political gains seem to have been confined solely to affairs in which women are personally interested—the home, babies, equal compensation and so on. Is there any sign that women have made their influence felt in the foreign policy of this country between the two wars? Women also take no active part in organised religion except on the material level. Today our women university graduates arc working at men's jobs in the Treasury and the Air Ministry, but not the Church nor, I think, the Diplomatic Service. The fault must be partly with the men, who do not encourage women to take their rightful place in the world. But I believe that woman must be prepared to take her part in restoring balance in world affairs before there is any hope of enduring peace, and this means that women must develop themselves spiritually, and not allow themselves to be sidetracked by social reform and Women's Insti- tutes. It is far too easy to be smugly satisfied with practical work. We must remember that Mary chose the better part.—Yours faith-
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