MRS OR MISS?
X’.Z.P. A.-Reuter LONDON
Fifty women last week marched on the British Passport Office in London to protest against being known as “Mrs” or “Miss." They want their passports to carry “Ms” as the term of address.
But they appeared unaware that the Passport Office already has the perfect answet —women’s documents can be issued with just a name and! without any prefix. The women, ail members of a group called the “Ms! Campaign.” claim that Miss
can be taken as a sign that a woman is “available” or too old to be interested. “Every official form wants to know whether you are married. This is unduly personal, mostly irrelevant and an intrusion into our personal sex lives,” said Ms Kate Walker, one of the marchers. A Passport Office spokesman, pointing out that prefixes were not compulsory, said: “We do not accept Ms at the moment because it is not in common usage, and would hinder people abroad.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33515, 22 April 1974, Page 6
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