VOICE OF WOMANHOOD
ESSENTIAL IN ALL LANDS
NEED FOR FULL FRANCHISE
(New t Zealand Official News Service) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 14. A Banish resolution regarding the political rights of women was discussed to-day by the United Nations Social, Humanitarian, and
Cultural Committee, of which Sir Carl Berendsen is chairman. Mrs Mclntosh, speaking for New Zealand, said the women of the Dominion had had the political franchise for more than 50 years, but it was not handed to them on a platter. The women of several other lands now had the political franchise after a struggle for it. Could a country be healthy which refused to a section of its people, probably the majority, the opportunity to accept full responsibility as citizens? She challenged the attitude of those who considered that women were not ready for the franchise, and asked whether men were ready when they were enfranchised and whether anything was being done to make women and men ready, and, if not, why not? What New Zealand cared about deeply was the development of a consciousness of responsibility of citizenship in the world—in all countries and in all persons.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26311, 16 November 1946, Page 7
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