Social Context / Legislation • Juliet Mitchell's anti-university course. • MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY ACT guarantees the wife a share of the family assets on dissolution of the marriage, based on her labour as either housewife or wage earner. • DIVORCE REFORM ACT makes irretrievable breakdown of the marriage the only grounds for divorce, and automatically grants … [Read more...]
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WLM IN BRITAIN
1965 to 1968
Social Context / Legislation • The Labour government National Plan: "Saw a rise in Women's employment as the answer to labour shortages. Further immigration was a politically unacceptable alternative. By 1967 the Confederation of British Industry were writing that women should not be prejudiced against in employment." (Big Flame Women's Commission 1976) • ABORTION ACT 1967 … [Read more...]