WOMEN’S RIGHTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1926, Page 5

WOMEN’S RIGHTS.

CHAMPIONED BY MISS WILKINSON. HOUSE OF COMMONS DISCUSSION. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 18. “Is woman becoming too obtrusive?” This subject provided an engaging debate between Alias Ellen Wilkinson and Alajor W. E. Elliott, both members of the House of Commons. Alajor Elliott maintained that women at present were concentrating, not merely on sex equality, but on sex privilege. A masculine reaction was long overdue. Women should again accept the subordinate position. Miss Wilkinson opened by saying: “Imagine the result of a general strike of housewives, who shouldered brooms and refused to carry on their jobs, obtrusively insisting on their rights. That general strike would, be settled speedier than the last.” She was amazed at the gentleness of women, who had been the beasts of burden. In man’s civilisation the Avife Avas an underpaid drudge, but Avomen u.oav demanded to ho treated as human beings. “Are plus fours unobtrusive, ” Isn’t Avouien ’s dress more sensible than the collections of tight-fit-ting tubes encompassing men?” asked the speaker.