FREEDOM LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 7, 10 January 1938, Page 14

FREEDOM LEAGUE

ARDENT ENGLISH FEMINISTS

Although one might think that in 1937 when almost every profession is open to men and. women equally except the Bench and the Church, the feminists have nothing left to fight for, this is apparently not. the case at all, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." ..,■■■■■■;■■...'. . There exists in England.an1 organisation called the Women's Freedom League, whose motto is "dare to be free." Among the league's aims are: More women members of the House of Commons and < the Privy Council; women in the House of Lords;- more women Magistrates; women police' in every Police Force; equal.opportunities Ifor men and women in the Civil Service and the teaching profession; the right of married'-romeri to.work for pay, and the right.of.a British.woman, to retain her nationality, on marriage to an alien. , ■ ■ ■ J; '

The president-of the league, Mrs. Corbett Ashby. 'vhen interviewed, said: ■•■■■"■•

"This year, remembering /the old adage, 'feed the brute,' we invited all men delegates on our:committee to an excellent lunch at, oijr hotel in Geneva. At lunch" ,»e sandwiched each man in between two ardent feminists, and by the end of Mrichtime most of theni confessed that .there was probably something in this question of the status of woman, after aIL : '.. ■'";■

'In fact, at the next meeting they were all most sympathetic^ All except the Swiss delegate, that is. He declared, amidst the; incredulous'silence of his cblleagues,,' that. there was <no problem of the status of women; in Switzerland, because Swiss women had no rights and wanted ho fights.- They were perfectly happy as they were."