LEADING ARTICLES. 



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made during the past year in Great 

 Britain. 



Those who believe that there should 

 be equal rates of pay for equal work 

 will be disappointed to learn that rates 

 have been fixed about twice as high for 

 men as for women, apparently on the 

 ground of sex alone. So far, only four 

 trades are scheduled — chain-making 

 and lace-finishing dealt with in 191 1, 

 and the paper-box industry and the 

 tailoring trade dealt with in 191 2. In 

 the tailoring trade the rate for women 

 is hxed at ^\d. instead of ^l,d. an hour, 

 as was hoped, and 6d. for men ; or 

 13s. lod. for women, and 25s. 6d. for 

 men per week of 51 hours. In the paper- 

 box trade, minimum rates have been 

 fixed for men in Great Britain at 6d. 

 an hour, and for women in Great Bri- 

 tain at 3d, rising to ^\d. in 1913, but 

 in Ireland the rate for women is 2jd. 

 A long list of trades is waiting to be 

 added and dealt with. In the Midlands 

 the women workers in the hollow-ware 

 trade at Lye now claim the assistance 

 of the law to obtain a real living wage, 

 and the Bermondsey women workers, 

 whose sudden effort some eighteen 

 months ago drew attention to their in- 

 credibly low wages, and procured ad- 

 vances, require further help. As Miss 

 Zimmern says, if low wages alone en- 

 title a trade to a place on the list, the 

 remaining clothing trades with one-fifth 

 of their women over 18 less than los. 

 a week should not long remain ex- 

 cluded. 



ETHICAL TRAINLXG OF 



TAPANESE WOMEN. 



The President of the Japan Women's 

 University, Jinzo Naruse, has an in- 

 teresting article on the Intellectual Life 

 of Japanese Women in a recent 

 number of the Oriental Rcviezv. The 

 W'omen's LJniversity, established by its 

 present president in 1901, has now 11 00 

 students. The method for the ethical 

 teaching of the students which the pre- 

 sident has adopted is to encourage them 

 to lead spiritual lives, drawing inspira- 

 tion from whatever religion they believe 

 in. z\mong the students are Buddhists, 

 Confucianists, Christians, and a large 



number professing no religion ; but they 

 are not only tolerant to each other re- 

 garding their faiths, but are united in 

 spirit. Awakened to the reality of the 

 existence of their independent person- 

 ality, they begin to feel the sense of duty, 

 ihe responsibility that they must accom- 

 pli.-:h, not only towards themselves, but 

 towards humanity. Japan needs a new 

 feminine personality — " a personality 

 that is never determinate, but self-deter- 

 miiing, self -creating, self -initiative, and 

 self -progressive, with an ideal for self- 

 realisation." 



CHINA'S FIRST W^OMAN DOC- 

 TOR. 



In the Mitigate Monthly appears a 

 short sketch of China's hrst woman 

 doctor. 



Dr. Jamei Kin received her medical 

 training in New York twenty-five years 

 ago. It was a courageous undertaking 

 in those days for an Eastern woman, 

 and the student had many difficulties 

 to overcome. Having taken her degree 

 and returned to her own country, the 

 value of her attainments has been re- 

 cognised, and she is now entrusted with 

 the organisation of a medical depart- 

 ment for women in Northern China. Its 

 headquarters are at Tientsin, and a hos- 

 pital, dispensary, and a medical college 

 for the training of women students have 

 been established. Dr. Kin planned the 

 buildings herself, and the work was 

 carried out by Chinese workmen, under 

 her supervision. In China, while there 

 is room and to spare for the highly 

 qualified woman doctor, there is equal 

 need for trained women nurses for pri- 

 vate homes and hospitals. Dr. Kin is 

 greatly interested in the education of 

 Chinese girls ; she also desires the sup- 

 pression of the opium traffic, and would 

 have the importation of opium from 

 India cease in hve years, instead of ten 

 years as now arranged. 



THE EDITATION OF WOMEN 

 IN INDIA. 



To the Correspondant M. Auguste 

 Fortier has contributed an interesting 

 paper on Indian students. Referring to 



