WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORK.

Mrs Louise McKinuey, the honoured Vice-President of the Canadian White Kibbonees, was the first woman Parliamentarian, not only of Canada but of the Empire.

Of the trustees of the Kind's Fund tor the Disabled, five are men the sixth s Mrs Lloyd George.

Mrs Rivers Moore, a daughter of the Dean of Worcester, has been appointed woman probation officer at Croydon Police Court, at a yearly salary of £.2CO.

Dr Anna Shaw, who is seventy years old, has taken the oath at Washington as a policewoman in the district of Columbia. She says: “They made fun of me when I suggested it forty years ago.”

The following were the number of votes polled by the women candidates at the historic occasion at which women first stood as candidates for the British Parliament Miss Christabel Pankhurst, 8,614; Countess Maekievicz, 7,835; Miss Mary Macarthur, 7,587 ; Mrs Despard, 5,634; Miss Alison Garland, 4,283; Miss Violet Markham, 4.000; Mrs Dacre Fox, 3,615; Mrs Pethick Lawrence, 2,985; Miss F. Phipps, R.A., 2,419; Mrs How-Martyn, B.Sc., 2,067; Mrs J. McEwan, 1.987 ; Mrs Corbett Ashby, 1,552; Mrs Oliver Strachan, 1,263; Miss Eunice Murray, 991; Miss W . Carney, 395 ; Hon. Mrs Mackenzie, 176.

The first object of the National Onion of Woman’s Societies in Britain was to obtain the Parliamentary Franchise for women on the same terms as it was granted to men; hut to this is added the endeavour to secure a real (quality of liberGes, opportunities and status between men and women. While the position of women in industry is as insecure as it is at present; while the special work of women as mothers is not paid at all; and is hampered and starved in every possible way; while the conditions of marriage are what they are; while a w oman is sometimes treated by law 41s not a parent of her own children, and sometimes as not a native of her own country; while she can have no women lawyers to defend her before the courts, no woman M P’s. to represent her in Parliament; while a number of

women are condemned to the most horrible kind of slaverx b\ the double moral standard; while all these things still happen, real equalitv is a vision of the future. “Common Cause.”

The first great South Ameri« , Anti-Alcohol Congress is to be held in Uruguay. Free passes have l>een given over the railways to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union representatives in order to expedite the arrangements.

A Social Hygiene Conference was held in New York last October, at which some 200 people were present from all parts of the United States, and to which Canada also sent representatives. A Findings Committer was appointed. Amongst those appointed to sit upon it were Dr. Abram Flexner, Captain Bates (Canada), Dr. F.xner, Colonel Snow, Madame D’Avril, de St. Croix, Miss Una Saunders, Dr. Katherine Davies, and F. PirtonTuberville, 0.8. E. The following resolutions were drawn up by this Committee, and passed unanimously by the Conference: -

(1) That the single standard of mor als should prevail for men and wo men.

(2) That continence is compatible with health and intellectual ' igour or both sexes.

(3) That men and women should serve together whenever possible on bodies whose functions concern the development and enforcement of inoral standards.

(4) That prostitutes lie not treated as a class apart from other women, and that prostitution be not recognised as a trade.

(5) That all measures, either preventative or repressive, concerned with social morality apply impartially to men and women.

(6) That a simultaneous, vigorous attack on venereal disease should be made, and that the issues of public health and morals be thoroughly corelated.

(7) That sounci sex education be incorporated in one entire educational system in homes, schools, colleges, and the church and press. (8) That social and economic adjustments granting to the individual decent living conditions and adequate recreation are essential to progress in social morality. These adjustments concern especially:

la) Housing conditions. lb) industrial conditions including

conditions of work and wages. (< ) Proper and sultu ient recreational opportunities.