What are the top three issues that feminists should unite to conquer?

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Asking for genuine thoughts and feedback. Disclaimer - not a journo but this is linked to some work I'm doing in the background on a voluntary basis. I'm not sharing further details (for obvious reasons!) but if anyone has concerns or questions, please PM me.

Feminism is so fragmented in terms of grass roots organisation - group A disagrees with group B and so on. However we know there will always be differences of opinion in activism and causes.

But if you had the chance to unify every feminist (and ally) in the UK behind three key causes/topics, what would they be and why?

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but I'd say that attempting to fix the image problem that puts off over 90% of UK females is key.

Funnily enough I was having a similar conversation with a feminist group last week. And I agree with you, I think it's something that needs to be addressed. We've been thinking about possible answers and still haven't reached agreement!!

Unbiased health care for women I. E. You need to take my 4th degree tear seriously please. If I was a bloke and my cock was dropping off I'd have surgery within a week

Sadly so true. I'm genuinely staggered and dismayed by the attitude of the NHS (in general) towards women's birth trauma and injuries. I'm reminded of this every time I see a Tena Lady advert.

The fact that women shoulder 90% of the burden of reproduction and child care

I think arguing for free childcare is a massive mistake for any feminist movement. This will seriously harm children who should be raised within loving families. Are we really arguing for our children to be raised by strangers so we can prioritise working?! The problem isn't that women cannot out source their children to someone else cheaply and often enough. The problem is that a mother's role in childcare isn't valued enough. We should be revered!

So my feminist priority would be:

• the elevation of the role of the mother in gestating, birthing, feeding and raising healthy children.

Ofgs that is riduculous.
Free childcare wont tear any mother away from her child but it will mean mothers have the same freedoms to work. Childcare falls more to mothers. Motherhood costs women more than fatherhood costs men. Women forced out of the workplace because of this. Inequality mushrooms out of that.
Women need money.
Perpetuating society where women dependent on a man is the mistake.

In the UK:
Abortion rights in Northern Ireland
Unfair domestic load
Changing the cultural attitude and legal process for tape and intimate partner violence.

1. Eradicate violence against women and girls (including domestic abuse, rape and sexual abuse).
2. Give women free, safe and legal access to abortion and provide better healthcare for women's health issues (perinatal care and gynaecological health).
3. Protect the rights and spaces of biological females.

If I could add a 4th it would be equal representation for women in politics - I think it would make all our feminist goals easier to achieve.

I don’t want to be ‘revered’ thank you very much Sunkisses ! Unless you mean being paid a basic income if you have kids so you can choose to outsource if you want to, which might be a solution.

the elevation of the role of the mother in gestating, birthing, feeding and raising healthy children.

What about women who want to return to work after having a baby?

Have to agree with Barracker's earlier post.

Unless we can identify, irrefutably, what a 'woman's is, none of these issues will be seen to affect either a) women as a class or b) solely women and will, therefore, not be regarded as feminist/women's issues.

1. A benefit system that looks after single parents properly. I was a single mother in Ireland, where there were good benefits for single parents at the time, and met older women who had been unable to leave abusive partners because such benefits hadn't existed in their time.
2. Legally enforced shorter working hours. When working hours are so unnecessarily long, mothers tend to opt for lower paying jobs or women find themselves having to choose between having children or continuing in the job they love.

Mothers wouldn't have to choose if fathers stepped up and did their share!

Mine would be

1. End religious oppression of women so they have freedom to choose their lives and take control of their fertility, wether in Afghanistan or Alabama. 2)Enable women to access viable ways of making a good living. 3)Change the assumption that men can opt out of their fathering responsibilities and the assumption that women come second in every way.