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2 itemsTopic: women's rights and emancipation ✕Place: Jombang ✕Publication: De Locomotief ✕
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GA-00648 1955-09-07 De Locomotief rel A

Kinderbewaarplaats (Childcare centre, Jombang)

Childcare centre planned for election day by Gerwani in Jombang

De Locomotief, 7 Sept 1955: the Gerwani branch in Jombang forms a committee, led by a Mrs Kenrati (uncertain), to set up a children's care centre during the coming general elections so mothers can vote calmly. Evidence of Gerwani's practical electoral support for women and childcare.

GA-00652 1955-11-30 De Locomotief rel A

De Gerwani over het huwelijk (Gerwani on marriage), full page 30 Nov 1955

Gerwani on marriage: full page with four-point marriage programme

Whole scrambled page of De Locomotief, 30 Nov 1955, with the fullest text of Gerwani's four-point marriage programme for the Constituante: no coercion, abolition of child, forced and purchase marriages and mistresses, polygamy forbidden in principle, divorce open to both sexes before a court and support for divorced wo