Talk:Women's Institutes

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Should this article be moved to National Federation of Women's Institutes? Or even just Women's Institute? Tom- 13:10, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Missing part of a sentence, and much of sense

From the History section:

In the circumstances of the First World War the Government of the United Kingdom's Board of Agriculture, with the belief that the WI could play an important role in the countryside, particularly in domestic science and the production and preserving of food.

There's a subject, a long secondary clause, then another, and then a full stop. I assume the missing predicate says something about the Board sponsoring the WI--but then the next paragraph has the Board of Trade (rather than Agriculture) withdrawing sponsorship, so maybe not.

Actually, I found most of this section (which makes up the bulk of the article) rather confusing. For example, after reading the extreme runon sentence at the end of the second paragraph a few times, I still have no clue what "their misleading stereotype" refers to. Then, after discussing the period from WWI to WWII, suddenly we jump back to 1919 to talk about WI Markets

The whole thing probably needs to be rewritten. However, I can't help much, as I can't make enough sense of the article to put something together, and about all I know about the WI beyond Mrs Alfred Watt is that all the stock footage of applauding women from Monty Python were them. --75.36.135.216 10:15, 19 August 2007 (UTC)