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- 1920s: Women:Equality vs. Privilege
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- <history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1920s Highlights</history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TIME Magazine
- March 10, 1923
- Women: Equality vs. Privilege
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- <p> Diametrically opposed measures relating to women's rights are
- the subject of bitter controversy in the New York Legislature. The
- National Women's Party has endorsed 25 so-called "equality" bills
- now undergoing a hearing before the Senate Committee on Codes. Some
- of these bills, embodying the National Women's Party principle that
- women should be treated on terms of literal equality with men,
- would abrogate nearly all the rights and immunities that women have
- won in industry, in domestic relations, and as child-bearers, after
- a continuous struggle of half a century. Women leaders opposed to
- the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that
- because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men
- and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the
- relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into
- chattel slavery--a slavery dictated not by the superior authority
- of men, as formerly, but by the logic of economic necessity.
- </p>
- <p> Among the bills bearing Governor Smith's written approval is
- a minimum wage act and an act limiting woman labor to 48 hours a
- week. These bills, in their present form, are being opposed by the
- National Women's Party.
- </p>
- <p> Women who have achieved success in callings in which men have
- hitherto been undisputed leaders will assemble in New York in May,
- 1924, at a great congress under the auspices of the American
- Women's Association. Personages on the list will include: 15
- Mayors, 6 explorers, 41 technical engineers. In addition, women
- writers, brokers, stock raisers, architects, undertakers,
- engravers, jewelers, doctors, farmers, editors, lawyers, clerics.
- </p>
- <p> After 14 years' leadership of the New York City League of
- Women Voters, Miss Mary Garrett Hay announced that she will retire.
- </p>
- <p> It is reported that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt will retire
- shortly from the presidency of the International Woman Suffrage
- Alliance. Her resignation is expected to take place at the May
- Congress of the Alliance in Rome, when her successor will be
- chosen.
- </p>
- <p> San Francisco women are planning construction of two great
- buildings to house their expanding activities. One of these will
- have facilities for 90 women's clubs and 80 member organizations.
- The other will contain the Women's City Club, whose membership
- numbers 6,000. Each building will cost nearly $1,000,000.
- </p>
- <p> "A woman upon every school board in the State of Illinois" is
- the announced goal of the Illinois League of Women Voters.
- </p>
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