Equal Right: Homosexual
Socialist Republic1976Women's liberationChurch, state and civil libertiesEconomy, the EEC and EuropeWomen's liberationChurch, state and civil libertiesEconomy, the EEC and Europe
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The setting up of a National Campaign for legal contraception (the Contraception Action Programme or C.A.P.) is a significant step forward in the struggle for the abailability The campaign is being sponsored by the following organisations: the Family Planning Services, the Irish Family Planning Association, Irishwomen United, Labour Women's National Council, North Dublin Social Workers Association, Womens Aid, the Womens Political Association and the Womens Liberation movement. It calls for the provision of legal contraception through the health services as well as sex education in schools and contraceptive advice and counselling in all maternity and child oppression of womens civil rights has been launched. We rotaily support the initiative of Irishwomen United in calling together these organisations on this issue, and call on all socialist and progressive Close examination of figures on unemployment, back wo the unacceptable fact that working women have been harder hit than men during the present recession. in the ad year period 1974—76, there was an increase of 81% of registered unemployed women, 4s against an increase of 65% for men, Linemployment assistance applications current for women increased by 125% for women, as against 70% for men, These figures exclude ALL unemployed female school-leavers, and all married wamen seeking for the first time, but AnCoO is continuing to train women for the stereotype fobs in the failing industries, Le. women in the clothing industry lost 1,677 jobs and women in the distributive trades Jobs for wornen are not only being lost but a womans right to work, married or not, & of contraception for those wishing to use it. welfare clinics.
people to throw their weight into making this campaign a real success.
unemployment WHO'S LOSING THE JOBS? unable to get work, There are many thousands of women not counted.
fost 1,299 jobs.
under attack. This is the first time a genuinely broad campaign against this aspect of the governments