STATUS OF WOMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 47, 24 January 1939, Page 11

STATUS OF WOMEN.

INQUIRY BY LEAGUE

An important development in the recognition of women’s place in the world was the appointment during last year by the Teague of Nations of an expert committee to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the legal status of women in the various countries of the world. Of that committee of seven four were women, namely, Miss Kcrstin Hesselgren (Sweden), Mme. Paul Bastid (France), Afadame Godjevac (Yugoslavia), and Miss Dorothy Kenyon (United States of America). Miss Hesselgren is a member of the Riksdag of Sweden and was an able speaker on tho subject of the status of women at the Assembly of the League of Nations last September. Mme. Bastid, who is a professor in the faculty of law of the University of Lyons, formerly held tho responsible position of technical adviser at the French Alinistry of Commerce until her marriage to Af. Paul Bastid, who was Min is ter of Commerce in the Blum Cabinet.

Another expert in international law is Dr Godjevac, who acted as technical adviser of the Government of Yugoslavia at the conference- on the codification of international law held at Tho Hague in 1930. She has also published many juridical works. Aliss Dorothy Kenyon is a member of the New York Bar and a partner in a well-known firm of lawyers. She is a doctor of laws of the New York University law school.