For an equal, living wage!
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by Sally Lopez
Much criticism of last month’s Women and Work Commission’s report on the “gender pay and opportunities gap” has focused on its failure to recommend compulsory equal pay audits for employers.
Women's rights and Feminism
A call for solidarity with Iranian women
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An International Women’s Day statement from iranian feminists
For International Woman’s Day the women of the “Campaign for Abolition of all Misogynistic Gender Based Legislation and Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran” have planned a daring protest which will start from Frankfurt on 4 March and end on 8 March in front of The Hague international court.
Equality in the struggle
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Jean Lane, a Women’s Fightback organiser during the miners’ strike, remembers how Paul Whetton responded to women organising.
Iraqi women
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Socialist Action members in the student movement have consistently opposed any form of solidarity with democratic organisations in Iraq, and none more fanatically than calls for student women to support Iraqi women’s rights activists.
the right to pee!
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Women truck drivers who use the port of Folkestone are celebrating a breakthrough this week in their world-wide “Right to Pee” campaign.
Say no to sharia law!
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A call from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
To all women’s, progressive, secularist and labour movement organisations
Make International Women’s Day on 8 March a day of saying no to Islamic sharia law in Iraq
Rebuild the student women’s movement
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By Mary Partington
There seems to be a renewed interest in feminism among young women. The FEM 05 conference held at Sheffield University in November attracted at least 200 young and student women — although the event’s complete lack of politics meant that most of them went away none the wiser.
Most feminist government ever?
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According to Metro, Minister for Women Tessa Jowell has claimed it will never be possible to fully close the gender pay gap, despite the progress that she says “the most feminist government in our history” has made.
Oxford women march for liberation
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By Mary Partington, Education Not for Sale Women
Feminist conference "a wasted opportunity"
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"Pretty much the only large-scale event on feminist politics to have been organised in the last few years", but "a wasted opportunity". So writes Laura Schwartz, reporting on the Fem05 conference on 5 November.