INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 6

INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY

20th July marked an interesting anniversary in the history of the woman's movement, says an American writer. On that day in the year 1848 the first conference for equal rights for women met at Seneca Falls, New) York, and sines then much history has been made. They I demanded equal right in the franchise, in education, in industry, in the professions, in political office, in marriage, in personal freedom, in control of property, iii guardianship of children, in making contracts, in the-Church, and in. the leadership of all moral and public movements. In short, the conference of 1848 protested against overy -form of the subjection of women and instituted a campaign to establish equal rights between men and women. . Of these demands only one has been ceded—the right to the" franchise, and to-day; over 13,000,000 women are free to record their vote, but they are asking for: . Equal control of their children. Equal control of their property. Equal control of their earnings. Equal right to make contracts. Equal citizenship rights. Equal inheritance rights. Equal control of national, State Mid local government. . , .. Equal opportunities in school* and universities. Equal opportunities in . Government service. Equal opportunities in professions and industries. Equal. pay for equal work. ! Equal authority in the Church. "Equal rights after marriage to their own identity and an Equal moral standard. Some of these rights have been won in certain of the States, but are not yet universally granted.