BOMBAY: “When you get thousands of women infiltrating in every business and in fact all walks of life in the country and do the jobs as good as men, do you expect these women, after the war, will go back to their old existence of saying “yes dear” to everything the husband says?” asked Sir Victor Sassoon addressing a women’s meeting under the auspices of the National India Association yesterday [Feb 10].

Sir Victor who extensively toured Great Britain and the United States and South America recently said that as many as seven to eight million women were engaged in Britain today with war work. Women in England today, Sir Victor said, had taken up men’s jobs and thus released men for the army to fight the war outside. There was a silent and bloodless revolution that had taken place in Britain which had made it a Socialist State.

The association of women with the work which men once did was going to affect the trend of events in the post-war era. There was a big surprise in store for men and probably it might cause lot of trouble to men, he said. — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2019