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University of Central Florida STARS PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements 1-1-1935 Women and equality Margaret Cowl Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Book is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact STARS@ucf.edu. Recommended Citation Cowl, Margaret, "Women and equality" (1935). PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. 44. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism/44 - - - ,,W O M E N  rrCCC) A N D  - - - ====: EQUALITY - rrCCC) lcrcrr -By MARGARETLCOWL t' Distribute it among the women in your shop and organization, and in your neighborhood. t 50 EAST 13th STREET WOMEN AND EQUALITY By  MARGARET COWL IT IS an undisputed fact that all women arb in & unequal position With men in all cgkn~ries wit6 the exception of the Union of Soviet sooid6t &&ub&es. ' " i by ~ r t h k  Wrjght, ffo mtgay yun ia Seneca. Iropoib W&D abed ' .  8 .  ' & .  4 > t (gentes) d -else. O c d @ ~  thm did not hmi- Ute to dethrone a chief cusd degrade him to a common warrior." , -- The freedom ~f women, as dsscz&& by Artbnt Wright, 'with the non-existence of private property. Wealth , ' .  , + A v  consi~ted chiefly of t ~ o h  fbr.bbtahi52 a d  preparing food; ho-, ciovhag and o r n ~ ~ k ~ ~ ~ ' ~ ' ; :  - a "Human l d a  bays Engels, =at stags not yet produwJ aL:Gkgmidarable amount over and aboM its. - cost af F;i;&3i_s~k&FfLm'H~ beings produd t$iiefly for the purpoais 6f Gxi~nce, not as today, when produdion is chiceffy fop making profits. The in~oduction of cattle-raisingO of the metal i n d w t ~ y ~  eJ 4 of weavjhg, and finally of agricuJture wrought a change. :! Ca.pturi%I enemies were na lcmgm, put to dutb or absorbed $ 1  into the clan as membap. TheJ *eke put to work and the proceeds of their labor, over '8ad &VQ- &at peeded for their own subsistence, belonged not to them8e'Tv& bbt t~ cer- -4 1 But 6is cWdren cod .his property* Accord- at that time, his chil- to the clan from whence the tr(~&tional, law d inhdktnee in 8- df (Engola, 0- of d a  Fami&.) Maternal law was abolished. - "The downfall of m a t e d  law was th female sex. The men sejzed the reine women were stripped of their dignity, en lust and mere machinee for the generation o Origin of the Fa&.) Inequality Based on Exploitation roads, the factories, factory r n w h q ,  rials, the banks, etc.) 5 ~r men of &eix class and 4 or live on the proceeds of in socw .16ng sex f '  & w W  dove. .s ,) i.?r!r- j? , : j j  , 4 . It iri-no wonder, then, that they are the p r a ~ l ~  . :I cAf8&e feminist movement in the U.S.A., and &um! fwi of labor legidstion fm womLlng~1a1 w ~ n a h  'r ! - By the time large wale, industry developed, wW . fddW ! replacing h-hoId apd &&~liahop prodoction and-biidt%'- . hmd idol, many wcr&- - jl &ciety as inferior to md'b ' < f ,  @-Weapon Agaimt All Workers . &,;:*, he. emolover of labor utilized thae  rcsdionarv idem #mut women *to make mole profits for himself. EqkkUy machinery was ~ p l i i i e d  women were employed n& at wages lowa than the wages receimd ,l& r30f lmsning to adaim that skill, mskilbd men workas Wha Wad, Grace Hutchins writes or women who had been m a r M  make b all working worn* in the U.S.A. % writes, "especialIy in the S o d  whew :mmen are employed and in towns where there orn women in industry, the proportion of , and divorced womm wage-earners is - 1 v 1 * t ,  4" 7 4. Cl)r bigh aa 70 pea w ~ t .  I$- free of& growing - p@~, to oust married ,yo- koqmhdpmy (in thp d t h  a law calling for d i s d g & - & . , U  Rhmhd women arouws a c ~ m ~ 0 1 1 :  -;,* ~~mkerrs and creates a sex ant&mnism a and w o l d i f ~ m r h ~  - _ I _  &*&d -- - SO that &y c d i % k k @ l ~ . ~  - - t ahvggle f o ~ ~ ~ o v e d  conditions. . U ~ ~  + I .  . The splendid qualities of women, their tender feelings for their loved ones, were and are used by the employem in the t. attempt to reduce to a minimum the resistti&e i f f e d  by men workers against increasing exploitation, against the low- ering of the standard of living of the working clads. That part of Lord Ashley's speech, quoted by Karl Msnt in a footnote in Cdpital, Volume I, delivered in London in 1844 on the. Tsn3Iour Bill, y&piq he aaid ''thus are the virtues, i the peculiar virtwqQ&~.female character to be perverted to her injury-tbudall that ,ia:-,,q~@t dutiful and tender in her nature is made a means her-&o'sldage and s d e ~ g " ,  applies to the present position of wmnen Gho work. - The precedent of lower wages for worhefi is now being creasif&ige costs. Men are replacing*wqd kt "women's wages'' but on condition that they tn"h%d~& ?heir speed. ~ d d t  women who know how to struggle fb;r+ikproved-con- ditions, arcbeing dismissed and young girls ars taking their Thus we see that there is a social and human ~osition a private property, whose very cd8t ing profits out of those who work; are kept in a humiliating position, out equality. ' To win complete equality with men jn , family, in the State, in society, women m together with the entire working clas change the present social system, the society, based on exploitation of other, to a s o o i d a  ~ystem of society, where dl % tion and oppmmi~n is eliminated and production is - f '69 h e f i t  of the produc 4 an1y under a workers' an , :  Y' Sa et fomofgovy3mment. The "aim of Sadialism", wrote Lenin, "in the whole wad&' is to fight exploitati~n of one bwnan being by tmotl~er'~; , '. A # In reply to the wowsations that there is no democraq*lir the Soviet Union*. Lenin replied: ~ ~ t l k ~ t B b w o ~ e h o a l d n 0 t ~ ~ p r ( # B b ( l 1 0 h ~ ~ ~ ~ m m i c  ~ W M E ~ B  ia ~omparbm with the nmn. You all b w  &at ewan i mdtigpe of o o m p h  equality, there at i l l  ranaim the real ~meion of woman, becaaee eha carries the orhole b d  .of %e h o d I d ,  " . . . ~n& work, petty in itself, cannot help the devehpl~~ent ,of women." 1 Complete Equality in the Soviet Union which includes: ete equality betweem men d women before in social life; a ra&cal reform of maziterl and ; recognition of mabdty ais a d a 1  btmcGm; ts and children. Creche, What Can We Do 1 The Communist Party warns the masses ok w o r n  in &q i U..S.A. that the road t i  women's freedom s u m  bg, &q. Socialist Party is a false one. The slanderous prapi conducted against the Soviet Union, the f a i r y * k l a f s  the militarization of children in the Soviet U a i q  a g ~  p, attempt to turn the, hate of the masses of the womep ,,m hperialist war and fascism into a hate ageinst the &v$& Ufiion; it means an attempt to turn the massea of w- away from the path of struggle for complete equality, f& freed&. The Socialist Party, over a period of ~reaohyi  ths "peaceful" way to achieve freedom to the w o i ~ ~  in Germany-and see how the shackles of degadab dm have been tightened around the millions of women in ' rascist Germany. ' Even suffrage rights for women in the U.S.A. wen won 1 only by the most determined struggle and only when work- ing women had fought through a number of great strikes for better economic conditions. The development of special forms and methods to fit in with the special position of women, which will facilitate tb;e struggle for immediate impr the masses of women, is nee equality and freedom. Women's committees in the trade unions an women's meetings called by the trade unions are to give proper attention to special w special women's meetings will develop wtivity of women inside the trade union; b r  organizers and gioaeers for the o nuness of working noken into the tr trade union auxiliaries-comprising ~~6 a powerful aid to the es for h e ~ r  conditi~m and. a means &B fight rgainat tbb. M$b cost of aainst war and' f d a f a .  , ' Tpc& special forms q d  methods ehould be onIg m an kiirilimy means to the general forms already adopted bgr entire working class to improve its daily life. The da- mand of equal pay for equal wagk for women wbrkdn' demands in &sir strike struggles is ad? to improve the conditions of women w ward off attach upon .the wap;es of all workers, be a demand pr&arilr in krik atroggla, but +&ivitfes should be orgar~iaed, especially of women9 to enforihJ~is- . organize -various activitie ers' Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill ), the only Bill which provides for immediate employment insurance, can become law o ~ l y  ding women, increase mass pressufe for its riminating ageinst Women, MOTHER BLOOR By Ann Barton WHAT EVERY WC%RE(IING WOMAN By Grace Hzctcbins WOMEN I N  ACTION By Eugene Gordon1 and Cyd Briggs By K. Kirsanoua WOMEN WHO WORK By Grace Hutcbins LENIN O N  THE WOMAN QUESTION ' By Clara Zetkin 

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