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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 10

Pan-Pacific Women’s Congress held in Christchurch from January 11 to 25 compelled one lethargic male mind to acknowledge that such an organisation exists. On several evenings I listened with interest to 3YA’s PanPacific Newsreel. Although no great believer in the exclusively female or male society, because they might as easily estrange as reconcile the sexes, I nevertheless thought the women’ considered a number of things important in themselves. The problem of "traffic in charm" in Cambodia, where men take young women and cast them off as,.soon as the bloom of youth is gone, is one which will scarcely be solved without the active support of strong and intelligent men. A lighter side came up when one member said that though the men in her country were allowed to have concubines economic obstacles kept the men down to one wife, who was quite able to "dominate" her husband, Mother Peter, to my mind, spoke wisely when she suggested ‘that equality should not be confused with being identical, While admiring Eastern frankness, the sexual tragedies of our own people leave us little to be proud of. The novels the respectable dismiss check against experience to prove that in the West marriage is an ideal rather than a reality.