ENGAGEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 130, 4 June 1935, Page 10

ENGAGEMENTS.

The engagement is announced of Doris Eileen, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs; W. H. Bridge, of mingsland, to Cecil John, eldest son of, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. May, of Mount-Albetc,

•Conditions of Work for Women. "This committee made it clear that the attack on the woman worker, particularly the married women, is worldwide. The Turkish women stated that there is no differentiation there, but they have only just begun to work. The Dutch delegates also said they had no differentiation in law, but there was in custom. However, the delegate from the Jewish Women's Zionist Association said that they did not suffer from any such distinction. A Turkish delepate made the interesting remark that if a woman teacher was sent into the interior efforts were made to get her husband a position there also, which sounde.as if the women had the best of the bargain. In Egypt the wsmcii do not seem to work anywhere except in the Civil Service, as also do the Greek and non-Egyptian women. New Industrial Codes. "An American delegate had something to say about the new industrial codes, which seem to have had tlie effect of raising- women's wages. There were, however, 509 codes and 138 contained differentiations. Nationality of married women has been a burning question, of course, and they had a special session on it, and some particularly interesting facts were mentioned. If a Turkish woman • marries a foreigner she can retain her own nationality; if a foreign woman marries a Turk she takes his nationality—purely nationalistic legislation, and wise from their point of view, as they need people, but by no means a cause of sex equality. America has its Cable Act, and in Denmark a woman retains her own nationality unless she goes to another country; in Rumania a woman can retain her nationality on application. "A woman who received much applause was a coloured woman from Jamaica, a Miss Massyn, who is quite young, and spoke so well and feelingly on behalf of all the coloured people. She made a stirring appeal to the white women to support their efforts to get the marriages made iegal and the children legitimised following on the time when marriage was forbidden, bringing under the law ma-iy who were kf.pt outside from no fault if their own. She said that the whit<? races had practically divided Africa between them, and it was only justice for the women to support their colonic! sisters in their efforts to right the .wrongs, which are many and press heavily on the people. Her speech received immense applause and evidently reached the hearts of those present. Another touching epeech was made by an Arab woman from Syria, who appealed to those women who had the- rights of citizenship to help others less fortunate.