WOMEN OF ARGENTINA

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 8

WOMEN OF ARGENTINA

DIVORCE AND SUFFRAGE

Argentina-, which for generations has regarded woman suffrage and divorce with traditional Latin antipathy, finds only a conservative Senate standing between it and both those social reforms (states a message from Buenos Aires). The Chamber,of Deputies, spurred by its vigorous and growing Socialist .wing, has passed both measures, but the attitude of the Senate is expected to prevent either from'becoming law at this session. . . The champions of both reforms are cheered, however, by their progress and by indications of a changing national viewpoint, and^ they believe that within a few years women will be voting in Argentina on equal terms with men trad divorce will be possible. . , ■ . Equal suffrage does not" riowvexist in bouth America, although' in'1- several countries limited/suffrage-is'given to women, and projects for; extending them the full vote are strongly sponsored, in-Brazil, Argentina, and Chile _ Divorce; is now possible in Bolivia iMspadqiy.ana Uruguay. Argentina. haa always- regarded divorce' with" repugnance, and those seeking separation I have gone chiefly to Montevideo, where I as <'want ads" in all the Buenos 'Aires newspapers proclaim;' divorces'- c'an^ be obtained '' with tho right to remarry at onceL" The divorce Bill, passed by the Argentine Chamber ,of Deputies is notable for the liberality pf'its terms. Ambng'the fourfeen"causes for divorce that it recognisea are; infidelity;f l)igamy maltreatment, ■; habitual -^drunkenness imprisemment 'for ;inoreVthaii five '.years' abandonment,-and insanity; f ','-'" '