A TIMELY REMINDER...

As a man of quality myself, I have been touched by the celebration of women`s right to vote being achieved 100 years ago.  Of course, that initial right was limited to women over the age of 30 and who owned property, but it was a start along the long and winding road to a much needed improvement in the search for equality between the sexes.

There is still a long way to go, of course, before true equality is achieved but I detect a seeming willingness on the part of society in general to eradicate any lingering gender inequality, as witnessed by the recent concentration on pay equality at the BBC and the testing of the water at Tesco`s concerning equal rewards for differing jobs.

And so, perhaps as a timely reminder of how things used to be, here is `an important public improvement film` showing just how far we have come in the intervening period.  Of course, it goes without saying that men of quality like myself would not dream of condoning the attitudes which were displayed in those times.   Here it is:-