ABSTRACT
In speaking on the subject of the Electoral Disabilities of Women, it is no longer necessary to preface one's remarks by an elaborate explanation of what is meant by this demand that we are making for admission to Electoral Representation. Most people will tell that a woman has no need to take part at all in the world's work; some man will certainly wish to marry her, and then she will have no need to trouble her head about politics and the like, with which she has no concern. If women carefully considered what the laws of marriage really are, they would be more likely than when they are absolutely ignorant of these laws, to remain single, and to believe, with St Paul, that 'they are happier if they so abide!. Wives in England are, in all respects, as to property, person, and children, in the legal condition of slaves.
