In South Korea, new president Yoon Suk-yeol is trying to end the Gender Equality Ministry—despite the ever-present need for better protection and representation for women.
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One of Dorothy’s first acts of feminist resistance was founding the West 80th Street Day Care Center in Manhattan in 1966. In his piece in the Day care for working parents was a revolutionary idea in itself, but the center was much more than that — it soon expanded to offer job training, legal assistance and community organizing.
“She realized that child-care challenges were deeply entangled with issues of racial discrimination, poverty, drug use, substandard housing, welfare hotels, job training and even the Vietnam War,” Laura L. Lovett, the author of “With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism” , wrote in The Washington Post in 2021…
“In most of the audiences that we speak to,” she added, “I don’t see very many friends or sisters because white women have not yet learned or come to the conclusion to change for themselves how much they have been part of my oppression, as a Black woman, and only until that is changed can we have sisterhood.”
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