That the existing law impose such disabilities in regard to women’s participation in local government in England and Wales is bad; but that the disabilities should be re-enacted in a measure for codifying the law would make the evil worse that it now is, for it would put new rivets on the old fetters. The Bill will actually worsen the position of women in local government, as for example it would disqualify Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who is not most usefully sitting (?) on Birmingham City Council.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949