Sentative women is to be set up in London to try to secure the half-dozen reforms which are considered to require the special support of women. This is really the result of an article called "The Women's Programme" which was published recently in "Time and Tide" and has been endorsed by various prominent women.
It urged that women, while taking their share in all social movements, should concentrate to secure the reforms most urgently needed Ly won: en as mothers or as wage-camers. These are, first, that the father of an illegitimate child should take a greater shave in the responsibility for its weltere- that. widowed mothers with—small children should receive State aid: and that laws regarding assaults on children should be made more stringent.
Then come the questions of equal rights of married parents, of equal pay for equal work, and of equal opportunities for women in the Civil Service. All these reforms are such as the Leyislature can deal with directly, and the Central Committee intends that they shall be pressed for at once.
Each of these reforms 1s, of course, already included in the immediate programme of some. infidential organizations, and many ere supported by several. {t will be interesting to see by what new methods the new Committee will carry on its propaganda. charmeuse. formed plain
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