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women. ITS The party pallameular y polls which publically Labour's failure on this front.
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response to it was the wouldn't The policy of the Alliance is high on propaganda value, but low on real content. Prior to the election it established a high profile on women by a combination of strong promotion of its women candidates, such as Rosie Barnes, but Neuberger, Sue Slipman and even SDP president Rosie Barnes was picked out to star in the Alliance's first Great prominence was given to the Alliance's promotion of woman the summary of major manifesto promises, it is pulled out as an issue of special priority in the design of the manifesto, and some of its promises sound exceedingly dramatic. ticular it highlights its promise to ensure that there '50 per cent of women all puoncany appolnieu bodies within ten years'which, in itself, Labour should certainly adopt.
However given that only 28,500 posts total are involved, already occupy approximately 6,600, this 'dramatic' proposal of the Alliance In par- boils down to an offer of 8,000 jobs, exclusively for highly qualified women, over the next ten years.
a policy will benefit the most of us. But for the relatively restricted layer sional women it is an offer not to be sneezed at, and it has the added advantage of being very establishing the Alliance as a 'feminist' sectors significance ments.
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unaware minimum women This is clearly not a proposal that there OI prores good propaganda in the surinarisco followed da.
bally The Alliance proposes to maintain • But it has particularly positive stand and job access. The continuation Tory policies by the Alliance in the has far negatix for than positive impact of Alliance promises a a small number of public appoin But if this is the real truth aboi Alliance policy, why has it managed t successfully present itself as the rea party of women? The answer to this ti in a combination of shrewd tactics b thorough failure of Labour, and th labour movement, to place women demands at the centre of its concerns First, the key Labour policy of th minimum wage was established last year — after a decad of fighting against entrenched oppos tion from the key unions representir higher paid and skilled workers. TR vanguard of the opposition minimum wage came from the ABU, union which, along with the EETPI can be considered as a paradigm ‹ everything that is corporate and narro in the British labour movement.
Following the adoption of th wage policy last year th conducted a rearguar battle to get it dropped it is the fact th unions like NUPE and GMBATU which championed the policy putting up a large part of the money fo Labour's election campaign that save The failure to campaign for th policy until so late in the day means th workers are complete of the proposal, and t absence of any precise figure for t creates great distrust Labour's commitment to it.
Débacle Ministry for was the Women. Once the poli debacle around had been agreed in the labour moi ment Kinnock himself led the reargua this time to get the propos down-graded, the ministry automatically included in the Cabin Kinnock was defeated, but the pr was that the Ministry for Women w not placed high on Labour's own age To these failures on external poli we can add the fact that Labour as has failed to introduce measures of internal positive action f women in time for this election. On again it was not until last year that t adopted the woman on every shortlist' proposal too late for it to have any impact parliamentary selections General Election, and allowing t Alliance to both field more women ca didates than Labour and get all t kudos for being the first party to ta measures to get The Alliance has adopted a clea