e such easy prey.

What really makes women workers afraid of their independent sisters is
that extremely pernicious system of payment euphemistically known as
"pocket-money." This should be swept off the face of the earth. Even
the richer woman has some rights, notably the right to work, and
I would suggest that she has this particular, and certainly not
unimportant function of raising the rate of remuneration. From my
knowledge of her, I consider that she is most anxious to do nothing
but good to her fellows. The only thing she needs in order to become
a help instead of a menace to her poorer sisters is knowledge of the
rules that govern the economic labour market.

Owing to the necessary expense and prolonged training for the medical
profession it has probably attracted a larger proportion of working
women who were not subject to immediate economic stress than most
other branches of work, and it is, in my opinion, due to the
presence of such women, that the conditions in it as a whole are so
satisfactory.

Having discussed the sort of woman suitable for the medical
profession, I now pass on to a consideration of the course of training
which must be taken in order to fit her for the work.

Before beginning her training, the student has to decide what medical
qualification she will take. Her choice lies between

(1) A degree of one of the universities, and
(2) A diploma.

It is essential to go to some University or Examining Board which
admits women and not to one, such as Oxford or Cambridge, where women
are denied the degree to which their work entitles them. As a matter
of fact, women medical students are not accepted at Oxford and
Cambridge. It is not possible to practise medicine, in a satisfactory
way unless one is actually in possession of the qualification. Any
one who does so, however well trained, ranks as a quack, and is not
legally entitled to sign death certificates nor to recover fees.

The degrees open to women in medicine, as in other branches of
learning, are those of London, Glasgow, Trinity College, Dublin, and,
in fact, of all the Universities of the United Kingdom except the two
just mentioned.

Qualifying diplomas other than degrees are those granted by:--

(1) The Conjoint Examining Board of the
Royal Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons of England.
(2) The Royal Colleges of Scotland.
(3) The Royal Colleges of Ireland.
(4) The Society of Apothecaries of