WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS

WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCA­TION, AND THE CUTS



Thurs­day 26th May  2011 6–9 p.m.

A meeting to hear what is happe­ning and plan action



Femi­nist Library, 5 West­mins­ter Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW



On hearing about the thre­a­te­ned closure of the History Dept at London

Met, where Lucy Bland, one of this country’s most respec­ted femi­nist

histo­ri­ans, works, we at the Femi­nist Library star­ted thin­king that

there ought to be a concer­ted femi­nist outcry about what is happe­ning in

our univer­si­ties. It’s  about more than Women’s Studies. It’s about the

fact that the Huma­ni­ties in gene­ral, which are studied by more women

than men, are under parti­cu­lar attack, it’s about older women retur­ning

to study, it’s about a woman lectu­rer being thre­a­te­ned with redun­dancy

because she was on mater­nity leave when the axe star­ted falling in her

univer­sity, and she too teaches a subject, not Huma­ni­ties, where most of

her students are women, and of course it’s also about racism and

clas­sism and all the other ways that women get syste­ma­ti­cally dumped on,

both inside acade­mia and without.



At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women are facing in

Higher Educa­tion from a number of diffe­rent pers­pec­ti­ves.



Spea­kers will include:

Lucy Bland (London Metro­po­li­tan Univer­sity), Patri­zia Di Bello

(Birk­beck, Univer­sity of London), Women Against the Cuts, UKUn­cut, women

student acti­vists, Women’s Budget Group, and others to be confir­med.



This will be follo­wed by an exchange of ideas about acti­ons we can take

and alli­an­ces we can make. Please spread this infor­ma­tion around your

networks.

Everyone is welcome.



The Femi­nist Library hopes to hold further meetings on how the cuts

affect women in diffe­rent areas, e.g. health, school educa­tion,

disa­bi­lity, housing, social servi­ces.  If you have other ideas or would

like to contri­bute in any way, please contact us at

adminfemi­nist­li­brary [ punto ] co [ punto ] uk (admin[at]femi­nist­li­brary[dot]co[dot]uk) or 020 7261 0879.  Unfor­tu­na­tely, we have

restric­ted disa­bled access, so please also contact us to see how we can

help.



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