WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN
HOUSEKEEPING MONEY
LONDON, October 30
Women's organisations are launching a national campaign for amendment of the law under which money saved by a wife from her housekeeping allowance belongs to her husband.
Miss Juanita Frances, chairmansecretary of the Married Women's Association, said: "As the law stands the housewives' position is little better than that of slaves."
This action follows the ruling by the Court of Appeal that a married woman does not possess the right to "keep for herself money she is able to save from her husband's housekeeping allowance to her, or payments from lodgers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 5
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98WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 5
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