Kira Cochrane has written a good article in the Guardian today celebrating 40 years of women’s liberation. What really struck me was the list of causes that the women were fighting for back then,
“the family, motherhood, delinquency, women and the economy, the concept of ‘women’s work’, [and] equal pay”
These are largely still the themes that women are concerned with today. How far we have come and yet how much further there is to go. I wonder what the new feminism is and what it’s goals are going to be? My money is on power and leadership, transforming the nature of those terms and the relationship that women have to them.
Though I also believe that we need to demonstrate women’s leadership, not just talk about it. What marked the beginning of the feminist revolution 40 years ago was action and we need that again. Something that allows women to come together to do what they do, in their ways, to step up into leadership roles. On our terms.
What do you think would help this cause?
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