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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 7

WOMEN'S NEW VOTE NOT ENOUGH. “ We arc often told in this country now,” said Viscountess Rhondda, in a recent speech, “that we have complete equality between men and women. But this is far from being tbe case. Our next step must be full equality for women engaged in industry and in the professions, both in status and pay. We shall never have political equality in tbe country while we have no women n the House of Lords. The world today is becoming more and more a world in which tilings are done by international action. To-day this is the inest.ion which 'laces us: Either we must have international feminism or we shall be faced with international anti-feminism.” YOUNG INDIA SPEAKS. Writing in his little paper, “ Young India,” on the doom of the purdah, Mr Gandhi says: “A reasoned appeal signed by many most influential people oil Bibar and almost an equal numbei if ladies of that province advising the total abolition of the purdah has just been issued in Bihar, India. Ve want that the women of our province should tie free to move about and take tlioir legitimate part in the life of the community. While we hold that a change from enforced seclusion to a complete Anglicanisation would be like dropping from frying-pan into fire, we feel that purdah must go, if we want our women to develop along Indian ideals. Tf we want them to add grace and beauty to our social life and raise its moral tone, if we want them to be excellent managers at home, helpful companions of their ..usbands, and useful members of the community, then the purdah, as it now exists must go. In lact, no seiious step for their welfare can be takeunless the veil is torn down, and it our conviction that if once the energy if half of our population, that lias been imprisoned artificially, is released, it wiL create a force which, if properly guided, will be of immeasurable good.”