WOMEN'S FORUM.
WOMEN IN CHINA. A recent order of the Ministry of the Interior strikes a blow at two timehonoured customs affecting the status of women in China. The new regulation forbids the practice of keeping slave girls which prevails in many parts of the country. Many wealthy Chinese families often keep as servants numbers of young girls whom indigent parents have been forced to dispose of in this way. Slave girls must be returned to their parents unconditionally, or, if orphans, must be allowed to marry when they have reached the proper age. The Ministry has also prohibited' the custom which permits Chinese families in the interior to take prospective, daughters-in-law into their homes as children, and set them to do the housework. A suggestion that the Government should establish a home for emancipated slave girls and concubines who have no families to take < ( are of them was rejected. >
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 240, 10 October 1932, Page 10
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