WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19531, 14 July 1925, Page 7

WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE

PLEA FOR EQUALITY. SOME FAR-REACHING DEMANDS. Pr«B» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 12. The conference of the British Commonwealth League of Women, at which women’s organisations in the overseas dominions arc well represented, discussed the inequalities of the marriage laws of the dominions, and adopted a resolution demanding that the dominions should legislate along the lines of the resolution adopted by the House of Commons, enabling British women to make declarations in the case of marriages with aliens; also protesting against the loss of status of women from other parts of the Commonwealth ou entering Soutn Africa and the Province of Quebec, and calling on the Governments of these countries to grant woman suffrage. Other resolutions were adopted demanding economic equality for women; legislation providing equal pay for equal work and a free field ; the removal of the obstacles against the employment of married women ; also the basing of protective legislation upon the nature of the work, and not upon sex. The Commonwealth League is a new body under the secretaryship of _ Miss Collison (Australia), the idea of which is to collaborate with overseas women’s organisations to advance women’s standpoints. —Reuter. ___