WOMEN AND SOCIETY

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 6

WOMEN AND SOCIETY

ARE THEY SHIRKING THEIV OBLIGATIONS? (To the Editor.)

ud . gln S b - v an art icle in the , 26th instant the Bishop of JwT 50 *- 14 * reverted to a habit of men {hatS?® > in history to the first man created evw?*]?'* woman was allotted the unph^t^J*? o * hearing them, namely, the habittf J?** woman for every unfortunate and I,!™* thing that happes. The BtehT,7ft"? has discovered that woman's remiHi.Ti® 1 wifely duties is a modern evil the world and quite approves of their St£ from Holy Orders. Why this SkSj* wonder, considering the hopeless have made of nearly two thousand preaching a doctrine thev make litn. * attempt to practice. Had the cler-v tiJ? selves made a strong stand for Pea«, that la.t hofocaurt averted and twenty million lives t2 Bishop of Durham admits that the reniui; ** of wifely and motherly duties is to the multitude of single women wh?„ consequence of the war are unable ~ * He apparently blames women for this tunate state of affairs. Is it any wo intelligent women wish to repudiate motlwk functions when the most physical* of their sons are claimed by the GnvJ»_V they live under and sent to L fodder of? No wonder women are fonE mothers unions everywhere and wakine imt! a sense of their responsibility as proterta* well as producers of human life. As a. step I would suggest all women joinine League of Nations Union. AJ)JL