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The crucial work that women do is often overlooked
Women’s caring role in society means we end up doing a ‘double day’ whether we like it or not, writes SELMA JAMES
Two supporters of the Women’s Liberation Movement at 10 Downing Street in 1971

WHEN the women’s liberation movement began in 1970, groups sprang up all over London and all over Britain. 

You would have a meeting and establish some of the things you wanted to discuss but at the next meeting there were twice as many women and you had to go over the same ground again. 

So the newcomers were told “form your own group,” and the number of groups doubled and trebled.

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