Feminist Notes

retains control. Por exaimnpe le, the 1967 Abortion Act in Britain was one of the must “liberal’ laws af the time, bul even then, there was never any doubt over sli would control the ~~ % decision on abortion. Tao doctors must-pive their permission for abortion, based on medical, pay chelogical and social consider: ations. And even these legal grounds for abertlon arc governed Sy the overriding assumption that the nom for a healthy, well-adjusted woman is motherhood. A woman must plead that she is seunehow umlit-for this role iste ia te get on abort jon under (he Act.

Women's right te control their own bodies was osurped by the slate in order te preserve the material and ideological props al chun rule, The struggle to win back for women this right to certral ther own fectit iey cannot be wor widkonut taking on the state, the church, ie needical profession and Lhe many othe mpresen latives of a syatens of clase rule. ‘That's the omucial and cendtrul lesson ee te ee |e FRENCH OUTLAW SEXISM Articles, pictures, adverts Of televion program mes that show women ina degeuding light became ileal uoder anew lw introduced by the Seclalist Party in France during March.

Offenders are huble to 2 fine of between £200 and £30,000 and up to a years to lead te “dicricimtion, hatred, violence, civil wrone of TileD onthe grounds of the sex. of an individual or ee SeOup.

EQUAL PAY?

According ty the International Labour Organisation the gap berieen male and female earnings & widening. The ILO Year Book of Labour Statistics reports that in Brituin between 1977 and 1981 the average earings of women fell fron 719 te 69.5 per cent of men's, In South Koren in 1981 WOH TN “i in nomagrcoltural work eared only 44.85 of male wages.

Women workers in Sweden ee SaaS Seer ay. chu percent of male average clings, WOMENS RIGHT TO WORK UNDRE ATTACK “Hugh Coveney, Fine Gael T.0-and Loed Mayor af Cork is very comeerned about unemployment, or a0 he would have us believe: | But his solution is emigration and, wait for it — one family, one job. He's concerned about “2 car, 4 jobs families’ next door to families of unemployed, Coveney's proposals are a recipe for pasting tarred women outot the work: Taree. Ag women's jobs are declining in number, there in no telling where Cowes plans mipfit end, Coveney s aunuul income amuniits ti around L£a8. OO”0 per annunt. Ohir Cork correapondent tells ws that down that way the -questicn cvervone is asking is: “Tre car, 4 fob fmaily — the watne wouwide fT be Coveney waned dr?!

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