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1)As a 1950`s born man, it depresses me that there is not more public support for CEDAW and #BackTo60. Even allowing for the fact that most people seem unable to see that if the government get away with stealing pensions from a group of people that they see as expendable as ..
2)voting support and then that government will gradually remove state funded pensions for everyone, surely the fact that these women are fighting back deserves support on its own merit. I was a youth in the 1960`s, when the women`s lib movement seemed to offer a much better ..
3)future by highlighting inequality. Sadly, my perspective on that now is that my generation of women generally experienced a life of work at lower income, caring for family, often caring for elderly or disabled relatives, childcare of grandchildren so that their daughters ..
4)could work, and so having little time to enjoy their "equality", so I think a SPA retirement age of 60 was some recompense. A number of women have risen to the top of their professions, but often by adapting to male patterns of management rather than changes to society. ..
5)Women are still promoted in MSM on the basis of their attractiveness, rather than their achievements or contribution to society: the nurses and carers, female and male, were clapped by the public, but few protested when their pay rise was turned down. ..
6)Looking back on life, I see so little achieved of the promise of my youth, and that is why I think there is desperate need for support for #CEDAW and #BackTo60 otherwise we will see another generation of women fighting the same battles.
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