Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Woman Suffrage in Italy. [ARTICLE]

Woman Suffrage in Italy.

Italian statesmen, having been asked to go a mile in granting new privileges to women, have gone twain. Minister Sacchi has recently introduced a bill to abolish marital authority—and the parliamentary commission has completed it, and added an article, “intended to w?cogn iz e woman’s right to exercise all liberal professions and be eligible for all posts of public employment except judicial functions, political rights, and the military defense of thd state.” The commission will demand, among other things, that qualified woman lawyers be allowed to practice. This movement has already received the support of a large number of deputies, says a correspondent, who will present a resolution that if the government passes the martial authority abolition bill it may include the amendments put forward by the commission.