Suffragist Calls for Recognition of Home Women

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 16

Suffragist Calls for Recognition of Home Women

LONDON.— "Battling " for women Js f reedomc is now Out of date, according to Mrs Emmeline Pethick-Lawrenee, who 30 years ago was herself cngagod in one ofHho hardest battles women have ever fuught — the battle i'or the parliamentary frauchise in Britain. Speaking recently at . a gathering held by tUe Six-Point Group, tiie mepibers of whieh stand . for compiete equality and freedom between men and women, Mrs Pethick-Lawrence pointed out that the tools of citizenship are now in women 's hands, and the great necessity is to use thern to advantage. Inffelligence, Mrs ' Pethick-Lawrence contends, is now the most essential requirement in order to impress statesmen with the fact that women have a speeial viewpoint in regard to political, economic and social adjustments and that they intended to have that viewpoint fairly dealt with. Hoine women, she says, are left out of all reckoni'ng in national alTairs. When the income of tho country is balanced up, it is understood to consist of "all the goods and services availablc for all citizens," but the labour of women in the homes is left out, and this fact leaves the national incoine in a perpetual stateof inaccuracy.