I’m sure this article has been posted before, but if you’ve not read it, it’s worth a read, particularly in the context of Ani O’Brien’s terrific piece.
www.abc.net.au/religion/transgenderism-the-latest-anti-feminist-wedge-of-the-left/10097710
Our memories aren’t long enough.
Remember when Stokely Carmichael was asked about the role of women in the civil rights movement?
“The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) attracted hundreds of idealistic young male and female activists, both black and white. Yet for all of the movement's commitment to racial equality, it failed to practice gender equality. The young men who led SNCC retained conventional notions of male superiority. They expected the women in the organization to cook meals, take notes, and defer to the men.
Once, when asked about the role of women volunteers in SNCC, Stokely Carmichael replied that the "only position for women in SNCC is prone."
Two white female activists, Casey Hayden and Mary King, wrote memos in 1964 and 1965 detailing their frustrations at the failure of the civil rights movement to recogniz issues related to women's concerns. They and others would eventually leave the civil rights crusade and helped organize the modern feminist movement.”
www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch34_02.htm
My own experience of left-wing organisations is that, no matter the rhetoric, women are still expected to do the washing up.
There is, in fact, a book by Australian writer Amirah Inglis, which is her memoir about being a member of the Communist Party in Melbourne in the 1940s. It’s called, The Hammer & Sickle and the Washing Up: Memories of an Australian Woman Communist
Kylie Tennant’s novel Ride on Stranger covers similar territory a decade earlier, (it’s a wonderful book).
Majority male organisations are rarely (never?), friends to women. Increasingly though, even female-centred organisations are not friends to women. 