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organised women and outside the at larger The should continue to develop its politics on a broad range of issues, , there is one area where its response has been weak. Since the passing of the equality legislation in 1974 (the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act) the problems facing women at the point of production have received less than the issues i ot reproduction (fertility control, domestic violence, domestic labour).
This was perhaps understandable given the tendency of many socialists to completely ignore the centrality of the problems of women in the home. But, now that women's right to work is so severely threatened, it seems vital that the women's movement turns its energies to this arena of struggle.
women support the removal of protective legislation for workers to allow them to women male. dominated areas of employment, parthose that require skills? How are we going to stop the drift of into part-time work? How women organise themselves within the unions? These questions must be answered if women are to respond in a rounded way to the Tory women's liberation movement has not met for two years. The Cents were amal affairs, anough il Women's was a big step forward that 250 British women went to Armagh to express solidarity with Irish women If large numbers of women, from all walks of life, are to be mobilised against the Tories it does seem that the women's movement will have to come to grips with its present disperboth at a local and a national level. For it is clear that without such forums for debate and discussion and powerfully organised women's movement, the enormous potential of feminism in the '80s could easily be NAC National Conference 17 18 11a!
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