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<title>(1920s) Women:Equality vs. Privilege</title>
<history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1920s Highlights</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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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