THIS TIME last year the Equal Pay and Sex Discimination Acts were heralded as a breakthrough for equality. Evidence like that presented on these pages shows that the cosmetics are The Labour Government and the trade union cales ome• cobanyes a aewero or mae wage restraint and unemp/oyment contained in the Social Contract. However, women will never be equal if they are denied the opportunities, child-care and abortion facilities and other conditions that lay its basis. On all the social Contract ensures thai women's rights are a direct target of the attack.
their complicity the Labour and trade union leaders further than the window dressing of the EPA) то таке up a fight which SDA. Such a fight would have to strike at the DENIS HEALEY has announced another E2½ million's worth of cuts in eclcation and ın the health And for the Labour Government, women's health can be cut first. Two threatened with closure. Earlier this to in hiding refusing to face up educational HI every SICO with Healey and energies and organisation First for heart of the Social Contract which they hav carefully nurtured: Hence the oppoșition o TUC General Council to the demands of Working Women's Charter, and Scanlon's ret throw national blacking action DeRini Trico women; hence the Equal Pay and Opp nities Campaign can conclude that it teels i behind the legislation, to, let alone tackle discrimination which patently exists' ensure that tl VVC HUDE leaders are not allowed to shelter behind demagogy about 'equality'. They must be fo to take up a real fight. Unity at every level of labour and women's movement in the build-u the Rally on Women's Rights is just a start the women of Trico have snown. when ine ( are down we must rely on our own stren Many women work in the Du sector in jobs that are too ofte rer ecuon or mer autes-u family - cleaning, cooking, ser The fisto go, because the culs caring, etc. These jobs wi OreCEc In tulal alca Cuts in social expenditure mean cuts in nursery tacitie substantial increases in nurs charges. Actions have been taker over the country - and notabl Preston - against attempts by k autnoriues to implement cur nursery provision.
Rationalisation in industry means that women's jobs are b hoppea. Unce again, because o increasing lack of facilities, n WONCE WOIK Ba-BIC UE LWH shifts and certainly in the lowest JODS Unions do very little to orga these women, and to a large ex accept that the primary role women is in the family and that t only work for "pin money" women's jobs tend to go first. rate of unemployment for wome still twice as high as that for men Cuts in employment only serv drive women back into the ho making nonsense or te eyu