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The world and his wife want to tho ly Day rally; and then the wito wont home to mako dinner, care for the children, and go off to a job at which she is that wo have a bed dool; and they aro loading our fight for oqual pay. For us to allow them to continuo to load our fight and to toll un what kind of equality wo can heve is dangorous. We must tell thom that wo will dofine our ovn oquality; that it is our light; and that equal pay is only the boginning. If mon winh to support us, wo can secopt thoir assistanoe, BUT SUPPORTERS SHOULD Cur problems aro broad, but in this lies our strongth, Wo havo tho probloms of workers: pioco-workorn and olippies, nuraos and call-girls, housowivos and secretaries. In this breadth lios our strongth: wo are all women; we are more ate our status as Gecond-class oitizehs, We do not need to wait another 100 year'a for equal pay and equnl opportunity. We cannot wait for men to offer us bits and pieces of equality. We must reach cut beyond merely our unions and homes and offices and buses to unite and make the changes we know to be just the daily pepers keep & section for ua: the pull-out, throw-away "unmen' s " This tells us only what the national, male-dominated press sasunes we whould be doing and learning: roin 3, fashion, housekeeping, baby-minding.
They hide our strength, They do not represent our interest. They exploit our We as women need a newapaper of cur own to define and defend our interests.
Until we have the resourees to support such e prodedt, our group offers our newsletter es a temporary mensure to begin to overcome our divisions, We or individuals; letters discussing our shared problemseducation, abortion, the isolation of the housewife, the political women, the working mother, the employmont situstion, or anything you feel sroe about eg SUPPORT AND NOT LEADI! then half of the population. and necessary.
Yes, Page. weaknesses. welcome news from groups в woman, paid up to 50% losa than the man working besido her.
BUT THE RESPONSE MUST COVE FROM T 2 WOMEN--FROM YOU, 154 Barnsbury Road London N Now, • this strength means that we do not need to toler- Wemen's Liberation Workshop tho men aro admitting