100th International Women’s Day - Public Meeting
Celebrating 100 years: International Women’s Day
Saturday, March 7, 2009
4:00pm the Democracy Center
45 Mt. Auburn St
(at the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Taylor St.)
Cambridge, MA
During an economic crisis, financial problems for working women only increase. Women are disproportionately affected in layoffs, cuts in social programs and health care.
Even in a period of economic growth, women are paid less than men for the same jobs, rely on insufficient funding from programs like affordable childcare and working at jobs, which are usually non-union with low pay. In 2005, 14.1% of women in the US lived below the poverty line, 6.1% of whom lived at only half of the poverty line. Much of the labor of society falls unpaid on women, such as childcare, care for the elderly and housework.
Capitalism is failing all of us and especially women. The current economic crisis has exposed capitalism as the root of women’s oppression and our misery. To end the oppression of women will take a mass movement of community members, unions, and activists. Socialist Alternative organizes women and men to fight for improvements in living standards for all
Speaker: Genevieve Morse is a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and works at UMass Boston (personal capacity)
Contact:
508-527-4337
boston@socialistalternative. org
