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had their first chance to get together at a conterence Among the 120 women. who the were school students, college students women had just started full-time employment.
For many of these young women it was the first opportunity to talk about we confront. The was sponsored by the women's committee of the National Students, the National and the National Association of Youth Clubs, and the newspaper Revolution.
boyfriends, lack of the contraception, the difficulties of getting abortions even after you've plucked up the courage If you're female and under 16 you get trod on, even more than women by One out of two women on the dole in this country is under 25.
Things are going to get worse not better with the Corrie Bill, which will make it very difficult women to obtain an abortion while cuts will throw opportunity' the window schools and colleges.
The women's -liberation movement has had a big impact on young women. Militancy ran high at the conference about the Tory attacks on WOllcH Tempers But tempers also rose over the intervention of radical feminists after lunch break. The feminists, several wearing war paint disrupted the session by screaming about Revolution, the youth paper that had been heavily committed to building the conference, being written men dominating conference. women tried to explain that we had wanted as many women as possible involved but they were not open to persuasion or debate. 'equal women were completely bewildered by what was happening. It was their feminist meeting. feminists had a similar approach to the women on the anti-Corrie march who rushed to the front ignoring the feelings of the thousands of women trade unionists who had been building the campaign for months.
The radical feminists who came to the young women's conference did radical not seem to be interested in building a broad movement that could attract because they supported the socialist youth paper Revolution and worked It's about time the Many youn me that these radical We also should