The Nation: Equality for Christmas

At the top of the liberated woman's Christmas list is a cheap ($1), durable (lifetime guarantee!) and novel (hardly any other woman has it!) gift idea from California. In advertisements across the | state, the Women's Equalization Committee urges California husbands: "Give your wife equality for Christmas." Under California law, husbands are given control over property that they and their wives own in common. A Los Angeles couple decided to correct the inequity and set up the Women's Equalization Committee. Their ads ask husbands to send...

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