INTER ALLIED WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN PARIS.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 288, 18 June 1919, Page 4

INTER ALLIED WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN PARIS.

Ihe Inter .Mlied Women's Conference in Pari", called by the Fren< h Woman Suffrage Societies, of which I wrote last month, was a marked success. A series of mo>t interesting meetings, attended by delegates from Belgium, Italy, Britain, the British Dominions, and U.S.A., was interspersed bv even more interesting interviews with all the chief representatives of the* Powers, assembled for the Peace Conference. Preside nt Wilson, in particular, gave a warm welcome to the women, and strongly supported their claim that a committee of representative women should he* appointed to sit in Paris during the Peace Conference, in order that their advice may be sought in matters specially relating to women and children. Such a committee has now actual I \ been chosen, and is sitting in Paris. Though it is merely an advisory body, and its recommendation* have no force or c laim to be heard beyond that of courtesy, yet it is a step in advance for women to have secured even so small a share in thy momentous decisions on which the fate of the world depends. The following resolutions were carried unanimously, without discussion, by the Women’s Conference: — That in every one of the Allied countries—

(a) Women shall be granted the vote on the same terms as it is or may he granted to men. (b) Married women shall not be deprived of their nationality against their will. (r) All existing inequalities in the law as between men and women shall be removed, all offices and employments shall be cqien to men anti women equally, and payment for work done shall be inde|M*ndent of sex. (d) The moral standard shall he equal for both sexes.

These resolutions were sent by the British Dominions Women Citizens' Union, and were moved by the delegate of that Union, Miss Atkinson, of New Zealand, by the request of the French President, Madame Schluniberger. They form, as it were, a Confession of Faith, a programme uix»r. which the leaders in the allied countries are .igrecd. without discussion.

HARRIET C. NEWCOMB, Hon. Sec. British Dominions’ Women Citizens’ Union