WOMEN AND CHILDREN
BILLS IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
OF CONSIDERABLE SCOPE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright,
LONDON, March IS.
The so-called Women's Charter has been read a first time in the House of Commons. It consists of nine Bills, Including the enfranchisement of women and entitling, them to divorce on the ground of men's unfaithfulness. It also grants wives a sum equivalent to the aggregate of wages earned as housekeepers in the event of the husband’s death, divorce, separation or bankruptcy. All educational facilities are to be shared by both sexes equally. Provision is made for supplying midwives and the establishment of creches modelled on the German system introduced by Pestalozzi ant|/ Froebel. Houses and milk for infants are to be provided by the municipalities.
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Southland Times, Issue 14370, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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