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Socialist women and IWD
and socialist women. Zetkin was uncompromising on the matter of cross-class collaboration among women ... militants. The distinctly socialist argument for women's suffrage rested on the recognition that the ... being arrested 15 times. In New York in 1909 women shirtwaist makers went on strike after the sacking of ...
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Women reclaim the night around Australia
of rape in war. Susan Price reports from Melbourne that around 2000 women marched on October 25. ... women and male supporters gathered in Civic on October 25 in a confident and friendly atmosphere not ... organising meeting for the next major event for the movement, International Women's Day, will be held on ...
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... and ain't i a woman? Women in Ireland's struggle
take part in this war. Very few of us put much time into the struggle for women's rights... we ... economic exploitation. We have opened up contacts with women outside of prison and developed a dialogue on ... "As Republican women who have been imprisoned for our beliefs, we feel that the struggle for ...
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On the box
war, how it changed the position of women and the implications on the structure of the family. ABC, ... documentary on Tahir Mahmood. A private detective, Tahir tracks down and returns Asian women who are fleeing ... True Stories: War of Distance — Wives of men who returned from World War II tell how the war ...
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A tribute to women often forgotten
A tribute to women often forgotten Bread and Roses Directed by Gaylene Preston Written by Graeme ... mother?" asks Sonja Davies' daughter as she reluctantly accompanies her mother on a quest to get ... anniversary of New Zealand women winning the right to vote, is an unapologetic celebration of the life of ...
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Population control or empowerment of women?
implied that a highly visible development phase, focusing on girls' education and women ... control on women's lives. While the official Australian delegation deserves credit for its key role ... consensus from last month's International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. ...
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Women and the struggle for education
did not admit women on equal terms until 1947. As more women entered higher education, they were ... effects of sexism in the wider society, so even those women who went on to tertiary education remained ... proportion of women going on to postgraduate study slowly improved, it still remains lower than for men. In ...
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A film to celebrate International Women's Day
Dottermans Dutch, with English subtitles At Dendy Cinema, Sydney, on March 9, 5pm Opens across Australia from ... begins with a long flashback through the eyes of an old Antonia to the end of the second world war, when ... of the women in Antonia's line, down to her great-granddaughter, Sarah. As the story rarely ...
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After Stalinism: women in Europe
BARBARA EINHORN is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market, a book on the experiences of women in ... opportunity to reconceptualise the conditions for women's empowerment or for a society based on social ... University, principally in the Women's Studies Centre, and is also associated with the School of European ...
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Lively discussion at women's history conference
round of debate on equality for women in church organisations. The archbishop of Melbourne at this time ... equal rights agenda, they promote a solidarity among women and speak out on women's issues as they ... the early 1970s. Nevertheless, the gathering of 400, organised by the Sydney University Women ...
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International Women's Day
Women marched in their thousands across Australia on Saturday, March 11, for International ... they heard speakers on the theme "Women Around the World Campaigning for Justice". Milena ... enterprise bargaining on women in the workplace, and Julie Spies of the Public Hospitals Coalition condemned ...
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Bringing literacy to Third World women
women. From this basic start, many teenage students have gone on to primary school to continue their ... annual budget directly on women's development projects. IWDA 's money comes from federal ... converse, but with other women you learn. When I first came here, I knew I would learn. I was very happy. My ...
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Violence against women: Who's to blame?
more tragically, wife-murder is on the rise. In 1991, 42% of all women murdered in Australia were ... fostered to make women more willing to accept lower wages, fewer social services, inequality on the job, ... ideological counter-attack on the advances that were made in women's status in the 1960s and '70s ...
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Afghan women speak out
Conference on Women in Beijing, a few of us attended the NGO Forum and were inspired to start the Afghan ... In early October, the AFGHAN WOMEN'S NETWORK — active in Peshawar and Islamabad in Pakistan ... imposition of repressive laws against women in areas of Afghanistan under Taliban army control. It also asked ...
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Why women's wages are slipping
New National Agenda for Women on February 10. Probably the biggest whopper was his assertion that ... particularly, though, the IRC's limits on enterprise bargaining do not protect women workers. At best they ... women in the full time work force will also be unaffected by the IRC's brakes on enterprise ...
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Cuban women: 'Lift the blockade!'
NIEVES ALEMANY (a member of the national secretariat of the Cuban Women's Federation, the ... They were interviewed in Melbourne on October 30 by Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Dave Holmes. ... objective. We considered four main resolutions: one on party statutes, another on our program, one on ...
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Jobs for women: how BHP was made to change its tune
were being put on at the rate of 30 to 40 a week, women like Mara were being told there were "no ... jobs for women". Between June 1977 and April 1980, the company put on more than 4000 ironworkers, ... of whom only 58, or a little over 1%, were women. In 1980 AI&S had more than 2000 women on its ...
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Russian women confront sexist violence
frustrations on their wives." The issue of violence against women, almost never covered by the Soviet mass ... during June put the number of women who died in Russia last year as a result of domestic violence at some ... 15,000. In this war within Russia's apartment blocks, waged against half the country's ...
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Shift to market brings disaster for Russian women
crisis are women. The new situation is also affecting birth rates; for the first time in the post-war ... By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — How did women live in the USSR when perestroika was in the future, ... when their shift ended. But when huge numbers of women arrived home from their jobs, their work began ...
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Women and the Russian Revolution
the Bolshevik government's revolutionary program on women's rights went and the struggle it ... stability; the women's groups which, while disparate, generally opposed the code on moral grounds; the ... Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 By Wendy Z. ...