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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women's Contribution to the GNP
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 02:55:45 EDT
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> 	In a demonstration designed to show solidarity with our sisters,
> there is planned an international day of "Time Off" for women.  Unlike a
> strike, this demonstration is designed to give each woman an opportunity
> to make a personal statement, whether that means taking 15 minutes away
> from her unpaid work or the entire day.  There will be press releases and
> some media coverage.
> 						  Patricia Collins

I have mixed feelings about this.  While I agree with the ideas that the
demonstration is trying to promote (that women contribute a lot to the
economy and society in general for which they are unpaid and otherwise
unrecognized), only the relatively rich women of the world will be able
to participate in this demonstration.  How is a peasant woman slaving in the
fields supposed to feel about a woman in the United States taking time off
from her comparatively easy work in order to show solidarity?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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