WOMEN'S CHARTER.
Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 16, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. Mr Chas. M'Laren's so-called Women's Charter was read a first time in the House of Commons. It consists of nine bills including enfranchisement of women and entitling them to divorce on the /-ground of men's unfaithfulness. It also grants wives a sum equivalent to the aggregate of Avages earned as housekeepers in event of the husband's death, divorce, separation, or bankruptcy. All educational facilities are to be shared by both sexes equally. Provision is made for supplying mid wives f and the establishment of creches modelled on the German system introduced by Pestalozzi, and Froobel Houses, and milk for infants are to be provided by municipalities in common.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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122WOMEN'S CHARTER. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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