IN OTHER LANDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20202, 12 January 1934, Page 9

IN OTHER LANDS.

Vote Granted to Women in Spain.

The recent general election in Spain was the first occasion on which women were allowed to vote. About thirteen million people were entitled to vote, and over seven million of them were women. The voting age for a woman was fixed at twenty-three by the last Republican constitution. So far there have been no women Cabinet Ministers in Spain, but there were three women deputies in the last Cortes. There have also been women who acted as direc-tors-general in the various Ministerial departments; Senorita Victoria Kent was Director-General of Prisons, and there have be-n women mayors and town councillors. But women lawyers, medical doctors and chemists do not enjoy a large practice. As a rule, when a Spanish professional woman gets married she gives up her career to devote herself entirely to her husband and children. The immense majority of Spanish women are great lovers of home life. They are profoundly Christian and conservative, and the result of the next elections should bear this out as far as women voters are concerned.