children from the present relationship of complete economic dependence of wife and
children on the husband-father. Women are organizing at work-places, in housing
projects and apartment buildings, and on university campuses, to establish facilities
for caring for children collectively.

; Working women are coming together from offices, factories, restaurants, devart-
ment stores to discuss the problems they face .and help each other organize around.
equal pay for equal work, the right to equal. work, day care and maternity leave, job
Security and an end to sexual objectification on ae job. Women's Caucus has initlat-~
ed a-working women's workshop as part of the new. ‘Community Educational and Research
_ Centre, through which we can do the necessary research and pool our experiences in
order a organize women within unions to deel with issues like equal pay and day care,
and most important te those 85-88% of working women. in B. C. ‘who are pee aes:

As well as doing educational’ work in ee ee at: gonad ee and
community colleges are. organizing to demand a curriculum that: tells the truth about
women, an end to the channelling of women into specific courses, and special economic
provisions to. enable women to continue in school Ei Sspite Ol ve fact that women can
earn cory one- third what men earn at a summer ao

AE Or ‘this is part of building a united movement of women, who. recoénize me
common -problems that face us whether we are students, workers or housewives. Across...
North America, women's liberation groups are gaining strength and numbers. The cee ay. ay
activities of Women's Caucus here in Vancouver are a part of the. process of building
a movement of women aka enough to confront, and change, the social conditions that
oppress us. . . : |

As the movement erows, so will opposition to it since Women's Caucus aie
the very. foundations of this society. One of the forms such opposition will take is
evidenced by an article in the Vancouver Sun on October 31, 1969, preciously entitled.
"Watch Out Men—The Ladies Are Revolting", and includes this disparaging observation,
"The liberationists, who are certainly not all lesbians, nymphomaniacs or frigid
narridens...." The author clearly wishes to "explain" the movement by implying | that
many, if not most, women who join Women's Liberation groups do so because they are
personal failures or deviants. Such pseudo-psychologizing cannot obscure the rea ality.
of a movement which arises from the real needs of women and it cannot hide: for.,long
the fact that women in the movement are there because they are like other women, not
because they are wee :