The Future of Woman in Journalism

There was recently opened, in Carey Street, which lies behind the London Law Courts, the Women's Press Club, which was founded last year.

The first guest at this ceremony was Mr. Brendan Bracken, the Minister of Information, who declared the club open and praised the journalistic efforts women have made, saying: it is much to be desired to see in the future a steadily growing number of women journalists and their attainment of the highest positions in the craft of the press; and he acknowledged, too, that woman has a brilliant future in this field.

The guests were received by Countess Rhondda, who is herself among the owners of newspapers and is the president of the club; she introduced the Minister with a valuable speech setting out the reasons that led to the founding of the club.

The building consists of a dining room, a library, a center where the members can meet and discuss their work, and another for receiving women visitors coming from foreign countries. Foreign women journalists may be regarded as honorary members for the duration of their stay in Britain.

Among those present were Viscount Camrose, one of the great newspaper proprietors, and some of the women members of the House of Commons, such as Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the British Minister of Education, Mr. Cazalet-Keir, Miss Irene Ward, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, together with a great number of eminent women writers and well-known personalities, such as Miss Rose Macaulay, Miss Cicely Hamilton, and Miss Sylvia Thompson.