WOMEN IN POLITICS.
TENDS TO FALL INTO HANDS OF UNMARRIED. PRIMARY QUALIFICATION LACKING. BISHOP OF DURHAM’S VIEWS. (Received Tuesday, 9.15 p.m.) I/ONDON, July 2. “It is one of the disadvantages of the admission of women into political life- on equal terms with men that invariably the representation of women in public life tends to fall into the hands of unmarried, childless women, who can never be the truest exponents of women’s mind and character,” declared the Bishop of Durham at the Mothers’ Union Festival. he said, knew unmarried and childless women who had shown wonderful unselfishness and affection towards children, but the fact remained that the natural experience of child bearing, with all its sacrifices, was an indispensable condition to motherly character. “I think it is therefore unfortunate that the representation of women in public life should be so largely in the hands of those who do not possess that primary qualification,” he said. — (“Times” cable.)
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Wairarapa Age, 3 July 1929, Page 5
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