ABSTRACT
This chapter describes author's view on Women's Liberation. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Espoused an Ideology of Radical Equality. While women always played an important part in SDS leadership, the top leadership roles were taken disproportionately by men. The author felt that the inequality of women in SDS, what would soon be dubbed sexism conflicted with the values that led him to be in the movement in the first place. He also saw challenge to oppression of women as a means to spread the movement to a new constituency. He thought it was a good thing when women at IPS who were associated with SDS formed a women's liberation group. The challenge to traditional gender roles has also helped fuel a global backlash, often represented by religious fundamentalism and its projection into the political arena. But so far that backlash has rarely returned women to the extent of subordination they experienced before the women's liberation movement.
