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teachers' attitudes and experiences conform to the stereotyped views often quoted about them.
One woman interviewed voiced some of these stereotypes held by her (male) headteacher:
*The Head under whom I have served for most of the time had no liking for women teachers. He did not regard them as dedicated: he looked on them as only staying for short periods at a time and liable to move on if their husbands were posted. He felt that they used school as a convenience rather than a career. He would Have chosen to have any in "opportunity for putting their own ideas/ organisational ability into use" highest, with an increase in salary ranking higher for single parents and women with dependant relatives than for married women.
[The latter noted that they are taxed so heavily that scale post salaries make little difference.] The opportunity to lead a team of other teachers was placed last in the ranking with only 3% of the women putting this first.
Several illuminating quotes emerged in the section dealing th "experiences in applying Woman Worker is published by the Workers Socialist League as part of the fight to mobilise women together with the working class in the international fight against capitalism. As Trotskyists we are fighting to reconstruct the Fourth International-the world party of socialist revolution-to lead the struggles of the working class.
Our programme, based on the Transitional Programme, is directed towards linking women's struggles for democratic rights and against economic oppression, with the eed to overthrow capitalism price increases as assessed by elected committees.
*For strike action ana occupations to defend the health, education and social services and threatened factories.
*For open-the-books committees to discover the real financial state of the social services, and private companies threatening closure.
*For nationalisation under workers" management without compensation of firms that declare themselves bankrupt.
*Against all anti-abortion legislation-for and comtraception on demand ners control of the of women by interle Stalinist workers