WITH INCREASED INTEREST IN WORLD AFFAIRS, COULD WOMEN CHANGE THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY?
Women have not so far with their hard-won political freedom changed even a small fraction of the structure of Society. They have not changed the status of women through their positions in the halls of Parliament or U.S. Senate. Not a woman’s voice in any country has been raised in their official position on behalf of the right of the poor, over-burdened women to have knowledge of birth control. This to their shame, for none of the women in the political arena, none in earning positions have large families and certainly would not attain the freedom they have without some knowledge or method to prevent the conception of unwanted children. Woman in world affairs is not a force–only a partial copycat of man’s influence and leadership, alas. [Both Sanger’s letter and the questionnaire have been included in The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1959.] (Alva and Nariman to MS, May 26, 1950; MS to Alva, Aug.
