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22 October 2015

The Women’s Equality Party is right – free childcare should be available to all

This proposal sends the message that care work isn’t just a private matter; it’s an equality issue, and one with which we all need to engage.

By Glosswitch

(Photo By Getty)

The first UK Women’s Liberation Movement Conference took place in Oxford in 1970. It was to result in the Women’s National Co-ordinating Committee making the following four demands:

1. Equal pay

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