A woman's place is where she's always been "WHO was it who made this law anyway? Who was it made the law which said that a woman's job is Sidy the and do washing, , cooking and ironing?' -Vera, a Gardner's worker.
There is no law saying women have to work in the home, only the iron law of capitalism in whose economic interests it is to have women as unpaid servants.
only pin money, isn't it?
MOST women work because they must: 230,000 Tammies rely on a woman s wage With the cost of living most women have to work to keep a family going there's no such thing as a family wage.
women s Aid, which with battered women's refuges, says: 'Without an independent income a woman is at the mercy of tne man and betty trvannies can grow into full-scale beatings.
THE mass media feed us stories of already 3-4m children living on or their mother can't go out to work. Chores the that conditions for women in work In the current tat inalviaual tamines take on tne burden of these responsibilities. single-parent If women go, soaring deals to give uo tnel joos helped men to get jobs.
The opposite the 'latch key' children, but there are below the poverty line. Think how much worse it is for them when The When women are unemployed they are occupied with household chores and are not so obviously out of work. This argument is used to justify low wages and appalling Women's role in the home involves unpaid work for the bosses. count economic crisis ca olalsmis torce to curte cos of social services and to demand the benefits.
WOMEN are already being forced • areas Unemployment for women has risen at twice the rate for men, and this hasn't and the case IS Allowing women to be sent out of women.
Tirst, preference to men, weakens the fight against unemployment as a them. whole. It is a divide and rule tactic employed by the bosses and by this government.
demand for a woman's right to work far from being as some contend vital for alerting all trades unionists to unemployment that is virtually hidden; the kind that is achieved through back door methods such as sacking part-time workers last in tirst out policies, which often hit women first.
capitalist system is anarchic that these conditions are always changing and that's why women as a flexible labour force are so necessary to the bosses What's next?
In fighting unemployment, have to take up a woman's right to work and the special needs of women need to be taken into acWithout nurseries, without adequate fertility control, without social services, provision, women do not have the raht to work The Employment Act is an attack on all workers, but on women workers in particular because of provision on maternity The nas passed resolutions on rights for part-time workers and on positive action to get women into male-dominated to safeguard women's proper place in the labour force in the future.
Demands for the 35-hour week work-sharing have to be related to the work conditions of This Tory government will stop al notning only the unity of the working class can. stop
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Who the hell will look after my kids?
there'll be more jobs for the boys