WOMEN IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 3

WOMEN IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

There are thirty-live women members of the German Reichstag. Of these more than twenty belong to the Socialistic group, but "no party is without representation, “ even those who most opposed suffrage before the war becoming reconciled when they saw how moderate and sensible fire women voters are.” Fran Schreiber, a Viennese married jo a German and a journalist by profession, writes thus of her fellow members There seems to be no special type of woman in the Reichstag. One sees every class and condition from the aristocrat to the workwoman, marriage making little difference; for, although there are many mothers of large families, at least «i score of unmarried women have been elected. Nor is the election of women merely a triumph for the sox. 'There is absolutely no women’s vote apart from the men’s; an independent woman candidate, appealing lo women on purely feminine grounds, would probably not poll a single vote. At the same time, the activities of the women members have contributed to_ the enactment of laws for (he opening of all the professions to women on equal terms with men, and the betterment of conditions for young women and children.”