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Day care centres =

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not adequate for number of working mothers

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Political agitation in a new sense =

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that the way men treated and regarded women needed to change
New type of ‘sexual politics’

3
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Alliance between campaigns for woman’s issues and those supporting other civil rights problematic =

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Civil rights campaigner Frederick Douglas rejected linking woman’s rights with rights for fellow AA in 1868
Black activists in 1960s did not always see a role for women

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Protests, writings and meetings against sexism did not take the form of an organised movement (like many of ones considered) =

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More of a general attitude

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One characteristic element was

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‘consciousness raising’
feminists saw as a political activity (although unconventional).
Small groups of women would meet to discuss position of women, sexual relationships etc. making women more aware of the ‘unequal power relationships’

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Feminist writer and activist Kate Millett wrote an influential book -

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Sexual Politics 1970.
On inequality of opportunity.
View that ‘every avenue of power was in male hands’

7
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Lack of political equality mirrored in

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economic equality
Female wages on average 63% of mens in 1956
by the time of 1970s agitation this had fallen to 57% (1973)

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No tax relief for children until =

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1977