CONFERENCE OF WOMEN SITS IN PARIS

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 July 1947, Page 9

CONFERENCE OF WOMEN SITS IN PARIS

WANGANUI LIKELY TO BE REPRESENTED

Well - known doctors, lawyers, authors and professors, who nave come from many dill erent parts of the world, and all of whom are women, are at present gathered in Paris lor the first post-war congress of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. The congress, which is being held in Uneszu headquarters, commenced on July IS and will continue till July 26.

Miss Renee Brown, oi Wanganui, who left New Zealand on the n.raw& last month, will probably be present, tnouga word of ner arrival nas not yet been received in New Zealand. Among the woman leaders who are taking part in the congress are Dr. i_ena Madesin Phillips, an American lawyer, who has been president oi the National Council of Women, and who has visited and lectured in almost every country in Europe, and Miss Dorothy A. Heneker, of Canada and England, a lawyer ana a wellknown writer and lecturer. “Brit aln’s most successful self-made woman,” Miss Gordon Holmes, who is joint-managing director of the National Securities Corporation, Ltd., of London, and director ul numerouut other financial enterprises, will %e present, and Sweden will be repie sented by Fru Alva Myrdal, a graduate of the University of Stockholm, a pioneer of parent education, and autnor of a best-selling book dealing with the problems centred round Sweden’s falling birth-rate. From England comes Miss Caro line Haslett, an engineer, who has frequently been the only woman at world engineering conferences. Miss Lisa Sergio is a U.S. commentator on world affairs, Dr. Dora Schmidt-Greo a Swiss economist, and Mne. Marcello Kraemar-Bach, oi Paris, an attorney, is the founder of the International Association of Women Lawyers. Czechoslovakia s representative is a dietitian by profession and Dr. Gilda Peraza, president of the Cuban delegation, is a professor at the University of Havana. Dr. De Guidi Insabot o is an Italian woman who was formerly processor of Chinese history at the institute of Naples, and another representative of that country is one of the leading sculptors of the uay. Froken Bergilot Lie, of Norway, is an economist, ana Maitre Madeleine Martinache is a lawyer who has been decorated by the Fxench Government for her services in the Resistance Movement.

New Zealand is represented by Miss Edith Pegg, now of Birmingham, and. Miss J. Grindlay (now of Glasgow), as well as, probably, Miss Renee Brown.

The congress will be devoted largely to the consideration of how the international Federation of Business and Professional Women must readjust its programme to meet the changing conditions, social and economic, of the post-war world.

This is the fourth international congress which has been held since the federation was organised in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1930. The previous congresses look place in Vienna (1931), Paris (1938), and Budapest (1939). Theap are now thirty-one national branches of the International Federation. Many of the European branches were inactive during the war, but these have now been reorganised and representatives from most are present at the congress.