Women in Local Government: At a meeting of the Women’s Local Government Society held at the Caxton Hall, on Tuesday, a resolution was unanimously passed calling upon Government to adopt Dr. Shipman’s Local Government Qualification Bill, whereby a residential qualification will suffice for candidature for County and Town Councils in England and Wales as it now does for all other Local Government bodies. … Mrs. Alan Bright in moving the resolution, said that the married women at present disqualified were especially enabled by their experience to take charge of the municipal housekeeping. Mrs. Pinsent, of Birmingham, who seconded, emphasized the need for women members of Asylum Committees, since they had charge of all the details of asylum life for women. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949