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this second stage, the correspondent of The Woman's Voice endeavored to obtain from certain government departments a count that reveals plainly the names of some of the mothers who struggle to feed their children while, in most cases, the husband has abandoned his responsibility, turning his face across the Mediterranean toward whatever his ill luck willed for him ...

These mothers, upon whom time has borne down with this straitened condition, find that the law — the law of their country, which has made them politically equal to man — turns about and denies them the right to the family allowance, instead of granting them two allowances

in place of the single one!!

And here follow lists of the names of married ladies whom Lebanese law denies the right to the family allowance.

1 — Mrs. Emily Fares Ibrahim: an employee at the Régie; her husband is an emigrant, and she alone provides for four sons whose ages range between 18 and 11 years. 2 — Ahila Ramadan Ayas: an employee at the Ministry of Social Affairs; she has three children. 3 — Mayy Fayyad: a social worker at the Ministry of Social Affairs. 4 — Eileen Emile Mhanna: an employee

Lists of Married Women Whom Lebanese Law Denies the Right to the Family Allowance

at one of the companies; she has one child. 5 — Antoinette Derian: an employee at the Ministry of Social Affairs; she has two children. 6 — Loris Tabbakh: an employee at the State Inspection Board, separated from her husband; she has two children.

7 — Mrs. Ghawi: Ministry of National Economy; her husband is an emigrant, and she has four children whose ages range between 16 and 11 years.

8 — Mrs. Bshour: Ministry of National Economy; her husband is an employee at the Kazan estab

Mrs. Loris Tabbakh and her two children

lishment, and she has four children, three boys and a girl, whose ages range between 13 and five.

As for the payroll of the Ministry of National Education, it is full of married women with children; we content ourselves for now with mentioning 64 names of women teachers from Beirut alone ...

At the New Girls' School: Muntaha Abi Shahin, Aqlin Shaftari Haddad, Abih Bustani, Marie-Louise Donato, Salwa Hamadeh, Linda Taleb.

At the Burj Abi Haidar School: Salwa Nuwayri, Nafisa Makki, In'am Addu, Zaynab Rifai, Najah Sha'r.

At the Raml al-Zaydaniyya School: Nadia Nasnas, In'am Halabi, Thurayya Fakhouri, Hafsa Hawwari, Wafiqa Mneimneh, Khayriyya Abbas, Fatima Banat Makki.

Mrs. Antoinette Derian

At the Second Girls' School: Nabiha Baayni, Bahiyya Shuqayr, Suad Mneimneh.

At the First Girls' School: Asma Fayed, Rose Ghubril, Fatat al-Mir, Salma Jaber, Salma Shabaqlu.

At the Tariq al-Jadida School: Isabel Nimeh, Nazik Ramadan, Umayya Bakdash, Lodi Bandali, Salwa Banat, Fatima Uthman, Hayat al-Hajj.

At the Ras al-Naba School: Yusr Fakhouri Naqqash, Widad Baba, Josephine Atiq, Salwa Sinno, Sabiha Khatib Sukkar.

At the Huda Shaarawi School: Juliette Abi Zayd, Kawthar Zantout, Ilham Haidar, Hamida Jawish.

At the Manara School: Najia Qabbani, Iqbal Hamadeh, Daad Nurallah, Jamal al-Badawi, Mahasin Ramadan, Marie Barbar.

At the Ras Beirut School: Yvette Farah Suleiman.

At the Ain al-Mraisseh School: Aqlin Bja'azani.

At the Ashrafieh School: Carmen Sioufi, Linda Sayegh Saab.

At the Warda al-Yaziji School: Bahiyya al-Sirwan, Suad Mazhar, Ihsan Khalid, Rasmiyya Mneimneh.

At the Basta School: Nilufar Salhab al-Hakim, Ibtihaj al-Sirwan, Samiha Jabr al-Amin, Imtiyaz Jabri, Lodi Shuwayri, Dalal Haidar, Afaf Makkawi, Saniyya Mazbudi.