WOMAN'S CHARTER.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.J [I'KR PREHS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, .March 15. .Sir Charles McLaren's Women's Charter was read a first time in the House of Commons. It consists of nine Bills, including enfranchisement of women, and entitling them to divorce on the ground of men's ltn,faithfulness. _ It also grants wives a sum equivalent to the aggregate of wages earned as house-keepers, in the event of a husband's death, divorce, separation or bankruptcy. All educational facilities are to be shared by both sexes equally. Provision is made for supplying midwives and the establishment of creches modelled on German systems, and introduced by IVstaiozzi . n i!iid_ Froebel. Houses and milk for infants are to be provided by municipalities.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 March 1910, Page 3
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121WOMAN'S CHARTER. Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 March 1910, Page 3
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