WOMEN'S RIGHTS
PROBLEMS OF NATIONALITY An alteration in (tic law to giro married women the same rights in matters of nationality as men or single women was sought by a deputation from the United Women's Movement which waited on the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. 15. Parry, yesterday. The Minister said the Government believed.in sex equality, and he pro-! mined to consult the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, whom he described as an authority on the subject.. Mrs. M B. Soljak referred to hardships suffered by British-born women who had married aliens, and said that married women should have choice of nationality. The national status of the wife should not bo affected by marriage, or by a husband's change of nationality. The law as it stood resulted in British-born women losing their national status by marriage to an alien,she added. Children of such a marriage were nationals of the country in which they were born, and might thus become aliens to their parents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24115, 6 November 1941, Page 11
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