Women are still very much in an inferior position in modern Britain. Only one in twenty-five Members of Parliament is a woman, and she is either shunted into the sidings of women's interest subjects" or regarded as a masculine-minded curio. Even on Select Committees and Royal Commissions investigating matters of direct interest to women, they are a negligible minority. In 10 years men outnumbered women by 534 members to 57 on committees of primary feminine concern. At times the balance was utterly irrational. Matrimonial proceedings, for instance, 11 men to one woman; disablement pensions, 12 men to no women. Even on the new Regional Economic Planning Councils only four of the 300 members are women.

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