The Sexes: Male and Female

> The latest male career to be invaded by liberated women is crime, according to Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology at England's Cambridge University. Although women have traditionally made up only one-eighth of the criminal population, Radzinowicz says, they will soon be closing the gap if the present trend continues. The trend will go on, he predicts, as long as women continue to liberate themselves from their traditional place in the home. During the World Wars, when women were forced to do tasks performed by men, their crime rate went up....

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