'Quite frankly, I don't think mothers he wouldn't have created man and woman.
Secretary bound old people for f15 per week) ' Services union branches, cuts groups.
attitudes within the labour movement itself.
Unfortunately, made.
government threat to women.
than any other section of the population.
return to work after pregnancy. 'British' culture.
cheer. time eventually ran out. The organisers conference in six weeks time!
Teesside, perplexed as to the reasons for having meeting quickly, conference which would exclude women wh not members of trade unions or local Labour P Rights of Women and the Campaig Corrie are planning a festival for momen Tories in June. anything to go by, such a festival vil mong vomca who have the same right to go out to work as fathers. If the Good Lord had intended us to have equal rights to go out to work, Patrick Jenkin, Social Services When you've got male unemployment, how much better that women, who more naturally incline to a community-based life, do this sort of thing (looking after house Nicholas Stacey, Director, Kent Social ON 22 March five hundred women attended a conference in London called by Women Fightback, s new campaign launched by the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, a grouping of activists in the Women came from their Labour Party and trade campaigns and women's They were eager to confront not only the ideas of Patrick Jenkin and Nicholas Stacey, who want to wipe out at a stroke all the steps women have made towards equality over the last couple of decades, but also to discuss how to take up sexist mainly due to general disorganisation at the conference, many women left feeling that the potential of the conference had not been fully tapped - no conclusive decisions were In opening the conference, Jo Richardson, Labour MP for Barking, pointed out that the whole economic philosophy of the Tory Party - cutting back on expenditure and relying on market forces to 'solve' the economic crisis — is a direct Women as wives, mothers, cooks, and domestic servants call on the services of the welfare state more The Employment Bill will make it more difficult for women who work in small firms, as many do, to Changes in social security legislation and the meagre increases in child benefits proposed in the Budget will make it more difficult for single mothers, the long-term unemployed and the sick, to manage.
Tighter immigration controls mean an attack on black women's freedom to marry the husband of their choice as well as encouraging the white population to view black communities as a threat to Pointing to the success of the campaign against John Corrie's anti-abortion Bill, Jo raised a big Workshops took place around five themes: the spending cuts; maternity rights; legal attacks; fertility control; and organising inside the labour movement.
Although there were ideas from the floor that women needed to take their own initiatives and organise a rally or demonstration against the Tories, conference urged women to return to a delegat Women who had made their way to London from Yorkshire and Scotland scemed rath particularty a If the Fightback broad