ELECTION OF WOMEN

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30055, 13 February 1963, Page 2

ELECTION OF WOMEN

Sponsoring Proposed “It is essential that women’s organisaitions should take the responsibility of sponsoring women for public offices,’’ said Mrs Muriel Hilton, a former Mayor of Tirnaru, at the inter-provincial conference of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers of New Zealand, which was held in Ashburton yesterday. This was the only way to get more women into public offices. “After half a century, women should not still be battling for recognition,” she said. “It is vital for the welfare of the nation that women take up the challenge and win for themselves more rights in the community.” Women were now doing the '‘donkey” work in the community, raising money for this and that project, she said. “They have the organising ability: yet how many achieve managerial or executive poets?” In emergencies women were able to take over men’s jobs and received acclamation al] round. “Women’s organisations are doing an excellent job for themselves, but they represent only a small percentage of women,” said Mrs Hilton. “What are the large number outside doing or thinking?”