ABSTRACT
The critique of women’s position when it came was in part a result of the very Welfare State that had been constructed on an assumption of their oppression. It was an unintended outcome of the expansion of higher education in the sixties, and also related to the generalized student revolt that came out of the universities. Student unrest was in part a response to the contradiction between the liberal pretensions of humanist education and the technological realities of the employment world and for women there was a special version of this contrast between the specious freedoms of academia and the reality of life afterwards.
