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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968โ€“1988

For women's right to work.

Red Weekly No. 159, 15 July 1976 · p. 2 of the scan · 363 words

The scan: rw-no159-jul-15-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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The occupations of colleges against teacher unemployment have brought hundreds of students into struggle for the first time. Many of these students are women, who in most cases have led the campaign and are the most determined in continuing the struggle Education, like other parts of the public sector. emulovs a large maiority of women, and they are the main secton ะพั‚ workers arectea ov the current attacks on social services and the right to work. Yet so far the campaigns against the cuts and for the right to work have not consistently raised demands for women's right to work.

The extent of the present rate of unemployment is hidden by the fact that many women do not register -many were part-ume anyway, many are not entuca to benerts, and oters simply go back to being housewives. o some exten socidi SIViCe CUEs. and the drop in the standard of living in general, are also masked by their absorption into the intensification of women s work in ine nome.

The unemployment of women, and cuts in services which affect mainly women, are not as strongly challenged by the labour movement as other attacks The assumption is that women do not really need to work, that men are the Dreaawinners. and mar single women do not exIst Garnett College of Education students have produced the pamphlet For a Women's Right to Work - Fight the Cuts to challenge Inese assumptions and to argue that the whole labour movement, in its own interests, must make women's demands a priority.

We show the extent of women's employment in the hardest-hit areas ment or by the labour movement as a services since the war have not fundaas unpaid, private domestic workers in the family. Because of this, women's work outside it reflects their position in i - women are nurses, cleaners secretaries, and so on. Divisive If the working class is to make a the right to work, the divisive women back to the home policy of the riant or women to work aerenced as a But to defend this right means to challenge women's position in the family, to begin fighting for more nur-

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