VICTORIA WHITE: Radical homemakers should lead new women’s liberation movement

ONE thousand women attended the meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin on Apr 14, 1971, when the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement was established.

Their manifesto, Chains or Change, listed six demands: equal pay, equality before the law, equal access to education, contraception and justice for deserted wives, unmarried mothers and widows.

Now it’s time for a new women’s movement. Our foremothers were concerned with the wrongs which affected them at that time but could not see into the future. They could not work out what new wrongs would emerge.