Significant Undertaking of Two Chinese Women to Advance their Sex The regular monthly meeting of the Shanghai Business Women's Club was held a't 11A Quinsan Road on Monday afternoon, with about 20 present. After tea was served the meeting was called to order by the chairman, Miss Li Yung-chen.
The first important item on the programme was the discussion of whether the Club should join the Women's Rights Movement, and it was unanimously agreed that the Club should support the movement. The question of whether the club should take the initiative in interesting the public in the matter of a Weekly Rest Day Movement was brought' up by Miss W. TI. Zung. The suggestion received the approval of all members present and it was decided that the first step should be publicity through newspapers and exchanging news among the different organizations. Weather permitting, the club members will go to Nanziang on October 28 and hold their regular meeting jo the garden of that place The Pre-organization Committee "of the Women's Rights Movement has been meeting regularly every Sunday afternoon at 18 Yuen Ming Yuen Road for over a month. The organizations of Shanghai, such as the Shanghai Women's Club, Shanghai Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Shanghzi Business Women's Club have expressed their opinion that they will all support the movement. Besides these organizations a large number of girls' schools have joined. It does seem as if the Mission girls' schools were a little slow to join such' a progressive movement,—the movement that helps the elevation of Chinese womanhood legally, socially, politically, and educationally.
This movement has been linked up with that of the Women's Suffrage Association recently on account of the presence in Shanghai of a representative of the latter movement, Misys Van Pu. This Women's Rights Movement demands not only equal suffrage but also other things, as later noted.
The first official meeting of ths Women's Rights Movement Branch of Shanghai will be held on October 22, place to be announced later, with both Chinese and foreign speakers.
The following are the aims for which the organization is working:
1. Women should he admitted to 3 the educational institutions in. the country.
2, Women and men should enjoy equal constitutional rights.
3. Under the private laws, the relations. between man and wife, parents and children, rights of inheritance, property, and conduct, should be greatly amended according to the principle of equality between men and women.
4. Marriage laws based upon equality for men and women should be enacted.
5. The age of consent should be 1e-gulared and those who take concubines
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