VOTES FOR WOMEN
Sir,-May I protest against Dukie’s remarks on women’s voting (Listener, Nov. 15). If, like his women friends, there are other women who care nothing about politics it’s time they woke up to the fact that politics can influence the backbone of their home life, Dad’s pay envelope-whether they will be. kicked out of their home-whether their sons will be killed in a war-whether in fact Dad can and for what reasons divorce her, and so on. I know many men who haven’t the intelligence of a guinea pig. If they can vote why shouldn’t women? If Dukie’s women friends are echoes of their husbands, I know plenty who aren't, and plenty without husbands to do _ their thinking for them. Maybe Dukie was trying to be funny, but while women look after men, from the cradle to the grave, and often bring home a-large share of the bacon as well, it’s time Dukie and all his type realised that whoever "pays the piper calls the tune"-until women are sheltered useless dolls; and until men do all their work for them, they have a right to vote-a democratic right to be valued and zealously guarded against all attacks, whether direct or the more pernicious pseudo-funny attacks of nit-wits.
MUM
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 5
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211VOTES FOR WOMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 5
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