Woman in the World

Egypt

In Egypt there is a new women's party, whose administrative board is presided over by Dr. Doria Shafik: it is the "Bint al-Nil Union" party.

The Union has proclaimed its program to the women of Egypt, and in this program the Egyptian woman declares her demand for woman's rights, and above all the right of parliamentary representation.

One of the Egyptian magazines put the question to the Union's administrative body: would each member nominate herself if given this right, and what is the first thing she would demand in Parliament?

Twelve ladies answered the magazine's question, among them six members who answered that they would wish to nominate themselves.

Among these was the woman of letters Suhayr al-Qalamawi, directress of publicity in the Union, who answered: "I have no time for such things."

Turkey

Halide Edib ... the greatest lady in Turkey — and there is no one in Turkey who does not know "Halide Edib." A distinguished woman of letters, she has written in English and in Turkish. This lady has played an important role in the life of her country.

She led the Turkish women's renaissance and joined with Mustafa Kemal and Ismet Inönü in the national struggle. Halide was the first to answer the call of the homeland: she volunteered in the War of Independence, and served under the command of Ismet Inönü, the present President of the Republic.

Halide fell out with Mustafa Kemal, and he banished her from Turkey; she lived with her husband in Paris. At last she returned to Turkey, to take the chair of literature at the University of Istanbul.

Athens

The Greeks used to say of Queen Frederica:

"Here is a foreigner sitting on our throne."

Yet not one year had passed since the Queen's accession to the Greek throne before the foreigner — German-English by origin — was living in the hearts of the people, who returned her love with love and devotion with devotion. And indeed this Queen has stood at the people's side, sharing its struggle.

Queen Frederica works in the national social institutions like any woman in Greece. Every morning she is at the "Child Welfare" association; she supervises the "Drop of Milk" association — the association that distributes a cup of milk every morning to every child in Greece — and at the same time she supervises the tuberculosis hospitals. She does nursing in the hospital for the war-wounded, and pays out of her own pocket for an orphans' asylum.

America

Word has reached us from the state of New Jersey in America that the various unions of working women and of women in the liberal professions have authorized their executive committee to protest to the state authorities against the estimable Dorothy Kenyon, America's member on the Commission on Women's Affairs.

The charge leveled by the 300 delegates, representing 26 different clubs, is that Miss Kenyon proved, in the course of her work on the Commission on Women's Affairs, that she opposes the idea of equality between the sexes, and that for this reason she does not deserve the post ..

Miss Kenyon, ever since her return from the congress of

the Commission on Women's Affairs held recently in Beirut, has been full of praise for the hospitality of the Lebanese government and the Lebanese people. Among what she said at a press conference:
"We learned a great deal about the progress achieved by that country, of which we had known nothing. The Lebanese ladies put forward sound proposals which the international women's commission will take into consideration."

A woman graduate in law from the University of London writes:

I resolved to study law as an avocation, without practicing the profession. But that by no means signifies that I do not follow the course of public affairs in whatever concerns this field, and what my fellow women are doing in the arena of the bar, the bench, and the public services. True, the British woman did not in times past enjoy the rights she enjoys now. She was barred from entering the university as a student — not only to study science, law, and philosophy, but for any study whatsoever. Conditions turned and developed, and woman's destiny was settled on a new plan and on a footing of equality with man in every field; and so among British women there came to be the lawyer, the physician, the professor, and the judge. This did not come about of itself, nor without a long, unbroken stretch of fierce struggle, patience, endurance, and sacrifice on the part of woman — whom men have denied her rights from the beginning of life until now. And it matters to me to say to my sister, woman, everywhere in the world, that our struggle has borne the best of fruit in most corners of the globe and lands of the inhabited world, and that we have taken our way up an ascending ladder of certain success. So it was that the first woman entered the profession of the bar in Britain in 1919 — she is today Mrs. Helena Normanton.

In the Soviet Russian Union there is a women's athletic movement, which aims at developing woman's athletic possibilities and building an athletic generation of women. There are millions of women in Russia who practice sports.

A great athletic meet was held recently in "Norway" for the championship of Europe in track and field, and Russia carried off five victories.
Thus "Yevgenia Sechenova" of Moscow was first in the two-hundred-meter race.
And "Nina Dumbadze" of Tbilisi came first in the discus throw.