ABSTRACT
The major goals of the feminist movement in this country in the last two decades have been to increase women’s access to employment and to improve conditions for women in the labor force. The concern for maternity leave and child care rights that accompanied the movement further emphasized women’s role as workers. Formal education, despite its powerful reproductive as well as transformative power, received less attention than it deserved. The creation of equal and unsegregated education was among the objectives of the early feminist movement, but it ranked only sixth on a list of eight.1 Today’s mean political climate, in which the government seeks greater control over women’s sexuality, coupled with the government’s unwillingness to support the poor, especially women in welfare, has brought new priorities to the women’s movement, notably abortion and domestic violence.
