From: Revue de Monats, 4. 1929/1930. H 4. Februar, Wien, pp. 389-90.
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[Autotranslation]:
[Autotranslation]:
1stInternational Men’s Rights Congress, 1929, Vienna
Yes, there is such a thing. We live in a crazy epoch. The wife has long since entered into competition with the man in the struggle for existence. Today, the strong sex has become so weak that it must fight for equality. About four years ago, Sigurd Höberth made public his plan of a world covenant for men’s rights, with the result that every man sneered. In the cabarets, more or less tactful jokes were torn, and there was simply no one who did not look at the undertaking from the humorous side. Men's rights! A revolutionary term. A long road leads from the head of the family in ancient Rome to the man of the twentieth century who is the victim of an alimentary process.
The history of women’s emancipation is at the same time an outline of the history of humanity. How time for wife and wife for woman began? Time, then you can judge the culture of a people. In earlier centuries, when women were politically and socially completely lawless, since the woman had not yet entered into economic competition, it was obvious that the protection of the law had to be especially given to women. Marriage then conferred a certain social status onthe woman. But if there were cases of divorce, it was only natural that the wife, who was closed to work, should be given alimony.
Times have changed since then thoroughly, the political and economic rights enjoy the woman today as much as the man. Only the legal provisions are the same. Their excesses are therefore the struggle of the men's rights and not, how many misunderstood, the woman and the marriage.
“We have set, as President Höberth,” ten demands, the most important of which are:
Divorced women who are able to work and gain or at least have an income that at least reaches the minimum subsistence level are not entitled to alimony.
A right to alimony after divorce is only available after three years of marriage.
Eligible mothers of illegitimate children are obliged to pay their children to contribute to the upkeep of the child.
“The most interesting thing, though, is that it’s not just about the man’s rights. There are also many women among the 2,500 Viennese members of the association. So far, the federal government has successfully fought three trials that involved balancing one’s life mate with the wife in matters of alimony. The organization of the association, which was founded more than three years ago, is making great progress lately. There are already 30,000 members around the world now.
The World Federation of Men's Rights is today an institution where you can no longer pass carelessly. Irrespective of political sentiment, people from all walks of life have come together in him. In addition to the high civil servant you can see unskilled workers, business people next to artists and scholars.”
The “World Federation,” which has already made demands on the National Council, will only have to exaggerate itself in order to be sure of the consent of all who are in favor of the equality of the sexes.
[Revue de Monats, 4. 1929/1930. H 4. Februar, Wien, pp. 389-90]
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ORIGINAL FULL TEXT:
1. Internationaler Kongreß Männerrechte, 1929, Wien.
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[Revue de Monats, 4. 1929/1930. H 4. Februar, Wien, pp. 389-90]
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Keyword: Hoeberth
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