ABSTRACT
To concentrate on prominent, and often highly educated, black women attributes no significance to the lives of working-class and poor women, and leave unquestioned the social circumstances which have permitted so few black women to be allowed to achieve prominence. White women's position in British post-school education and American universities is only marginally more secure, and schooled within the values and according to the rules of patriarchy, women scholars, for their own survival, have frequently adopted the language, values and behaviour patterns prescribed by the institutions in which they work. Women's liberation has to embrace the ideas and strategies of a political movement committed to toppling capitalism as well as confronting patriarchal systems of private and public control. A good many educated women have used the ideology of economic independence, job-sharing and role swapping to establish careers which bring satisfaction and economic rewards.
