'Discrimination must end’

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33783, 4 March 1975, Page 6

'Discrimination must end’

(N.Z.P.A.-Reute r—Copy r i ght.) PARIS, March 3. 1 President Valery Giscard j uD’Estaing of France has! [called for'the end of all dis-! I crimination against women, , warning that "submission land blind dependence will no [longer be acceptable or [accepted.” The President was opening i I a three-day international, I conference of some 2000 of I ■the world’s top women —' ! Government officials, legislators and trades unionists 1 from four continents —I I aimed at defining the mod- i ’em role of thekr sex. There were 35 women! ■Cabinet Ministers in theP ; audience that heard Presi-; dent Giscard D’Estaing , declare: “At the beginning; there was slavery, and the! first slave was a woman,” GUIDELINES He proposed guidelines for . future action, one of which; was the elimination of all discrimination. Women should have the same chance as men in economic and political life, he said. President Giscard! D’Estaing said a social system must also be developed. ■ [to help women assert, their | I' right to a professional and family life. I He suggested that devel-| ; opment of a good relation- ' I ship “between the two i halves of the world’s population depends largely on the : attitude of men.” . . i