NEW POLICY FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 5

NEW POLICY FOR WOMEN

LIBERAL PARTY IN N.S.W. SUGGESTED ECONOMIC REFORMS (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 19. A new deal for women was advocated to-day by the annual conference of .the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party. The conference recommended that the party platform have as its objective the complete elimination of all anomalies, legal, social, and economic, or those arising purely by custom which tend to place women at a disadvantage. The proposed new policy, which was recommended by the women’s status committee, provides for adequate antenatal and post-natal clinics and maternity hospitals; a comprehensive system of community centres to include nurseries, nursery schools, kindergartens,. organised playgrounds, children’s and ’adult libraries, family holiday homes, and. national fitness camps to be available to all; the extension of the emergency housekeeping service; encouragement of the establishment of clubs and hostels for women: and the independent housing of women. Economic reforms advocated are equal pay for equal work, no sex discrimination in Public Service appointments, women to be appointed to all Government boards and commissions, adequate accommodation for nurses, and the enforcement of the provisions of awards governing nurses.