THE "WOMEN'S CHARTER."
Sir Chas. McLaren's so-called "women's charter" was read a first time in the House of Commons. It consists of nine Bills, including one for the enfranchisement of women, and another entitling them to divorce on the pound of the hushand's unfaithfulness. It proposes to grant to wives a sum equivalent to the aggregate of wages earned as housekeepers, .in the 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 midwives, and tho establishment of creches, modelled on the German sys- - terns introduced by Pestaloßzi and Froebel. Bouses, and milk for infants, are to be jprovided by the municipalities. •
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13683, 17 March 1910, Page 7
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