N.Z. WOMAN TO SPEAK IN SYDNEY

Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1946, Page 7

N.Z. WOMAN TO SPEAK IN SYDNEY

! Miss Elsie Andrews, of New Ply- ! moulii, is loaviug tomonovv by tue j Aloreton Bay for Sydney, where sjie is j to be a guest speaker at tbc interj natiorial women's eonference. The maia j purpose of the eonference is to discuss j tiie AustraJian Women's Cliarter, wliicii j was drawn up three years ago, on I women's part in the post-war world.' ■j Miss Andrews will address the con- ; ferencc, which will last a week, on the J slogan which expresses the spirit in j which the eonference is being lield — j " Ao peace without unity, and no unity without equality. " ! While, in Wellington during the past | fejv days, Miss Andrews has referred j every section of the Australiau Women's Cliarter to experts ■ in each ! section. ' i Miss Andrews is partievularly well ■ | suited to deal with the question of J equal status for nien and women, as i she has a long exptrience of battles on : behalf of the Women Teachers'. Asso- , ciat ion and was also a member of the committec which prepared a pamphlet - on the subject for the golden jubilee j of o.omen's franchise in 1043. | During a two months' stay in Ausi fralia she will givo lectures at the invitaliou of ohicials of the W.C.T.U. In Miss Andrews 's opinion this eonference sliould be watched with iuterest hy every Xew Zealand woman. "Ti aniazos me," she said, "that even now s'.ieli a eonference of women should be regarded witli some contcmpt. Even educated people still tend to term n galliering of women a 'caekle partv ' and don 't realise the important contributions women ean make in botli , eommunitv and national life." » ■■