THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN TODAY. Almost a hundredn years a go the position of women in Britain was not equal to men. Women spent almost all of their lives in taking care of children. They had no right to vote. They could not even own property in marriage. Women got the right to vote after the First World War. Other rights followed more slowly. To day women are still not really equel in all res pects.
In some industries women make up a round half the labour force. The food and clothing industries are e xamples. How ever women often get less money than men even when they do the same job. The pay difference can be as great as twenty per centage. In 19 00 the only professional jobs open to women were in teaching. There were no women lawyers engi neers or architects. To day women seem to have the best professional changes in edu cation as teachers and pro fessors in medicine as doctors and in journalism.
