Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to encourage women to work, AMNLAE, working with the FSLN-run urban block associations, the Sandinist Defense Committees (through which AMNLAE reaches its 350,000 active members out of a total population of one million women), pressures men to assume child care and housework responsibilities. With the Ministry of Social Welfare, AMNLAE hopes to open 30 free daycare centers in urban Nicaragua (so far, 11 have been established--six in Managua, three in Leon and two in Grenada) and plans similar facilities for rural areas...
...trio of feminists arrived in Vienna last week via a special Aeroflot flight. Though dazed by their expulsion, they still showed defiance. Said Tatyana Goricheva: "For 60 years Soviet women had remained silent. With the double workload -jobs and housework-they had no time to open their mouths. But now the women's movement is gaining ground." Goricheva, 32, told how the KGB harassed their magazine from its inception. The editors were repeatedly summoned by the KGB for interrogation and followed wherever they went. Their homes were searched in an effort to find the first typewritten issue, of which...