No, equality has not been achieved – we must keep fighting
Controlling women – what we think, what we do, what we say, what we wear and look like – is still pervasive throughout society, writes HELEN O’CONNOR of newly formed women’s rights group Women Will Not Be Silenced

IT IS fair to say that in spite of years of struggle, women have not achieved equality and the world is becoming an increasingly hostile and dangerous place for women and girls.
The fight for women’s liberation became derailed from the 1980s onwards following the elections of Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in Britain.
Both sets of right-wing governments implemented regressive policies that cut the public services which working-class women rely on the most and they drove down wages, terms and conditions.
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