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WOMEN GENDER & THE BOSSES - Gender Demands

Group Study
Divide your group into three to look at documents in the following areas:

  • Maternity leave
  • Child care
  • All other demands including around sexual harassment
  1. In your small groups (or by yourself) make a timeline of the key moments in the struggle you are reading about (maternity, child care etc).
  2. Present you timeline to the rest of the members of your group, explaining what happened.
  3. As a group, make a single timeline incorporating all three of the timelines you have produced.
  4. Discuss periods where you find activity over more than one demand and analyse the links between the demands and how they were pursued.


As an individual exercise
Read the documents and make one timeline for each of the gender demands:

  • Maternity leave
  • Sexual harassment
  • Child care
  1. Make a single timeline incorporating all three of the timelines you have produced.
  2. Add on the other demands you find recorded in the documents
  3. Identify periods of intense activity around these demands and discuss with other activists what else was going on during those times. Does gender activity accompany periods of generally raised activity or does it happen when everything else is quiet?

 

Available documents to download
Maternity Leave
(click on Learning Resource Number to download)
A2.1 Fosatu Worker News, - Women's rights new thrust in FOSATU agreements - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1981: Maternity leave in agreements in two workplaces.
A2.2 Fosatu Worker News, Number 19 - New maternity deal at Autoplastics - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1983: NAAWU maternity leave agreement
A2.3 Fosatu Worker News, Number 25 - Women's group to fight for maternity rights - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1983: New Transvaal women's group decide to focus on maternity rights
A2.4 Maternity rights and benefits and protective legislation at work SALB 1983: 'looks at the major issues around maternity rights and at the broader question of protective legislation'
A2.5 Ccawusa maternity agreement SALB 1983: Maternity agreement with OK Bazaars
A2.6 Fosatu Worker News, Number 30 - Maternity - a worker right! - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1984: Articles on:
Maternity Rights
Motor industry's first maternity agreement
A2.7 Document: CCAWUSA Maternity Agreement SALB 10.2 1984: CCAWUSA model maternity agreement
A2.8 Fosatu Worker News, Number 30 - Women demand guaranteed re-employment, Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1984: Strike for guaranteed re-employment after maternity leave
A2.9 Fosatu Worker News, Number 31 - Huge step towards proper child care - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1984: New partially paid maternity leave agreement
A2.10 Speak, No 6 - Whiteheads women are winning - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Speak 1984: Maternity rights struggle
A2.11 Fosatu Worker News, Number 35-36 - New maternity benefits at Henkel - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1985: Partially paid maternity leave agreement
A2.12 Fosatu Worker News, Number 42 - Toyota's maternity agreement - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1985: Strike leads to partially paid maternity leave agreement
A2.13 Work In Progress, Issue 36 - CCAWUSA maternity benefit breakthrough - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa WIP 1985: Maternity agreement negotiated by CCAWUSA
A2.14 Maternity Rights: Ccawusa shows the way SALB 1985: Maternity agreement with Metro Cash 'n Carry
A2.15 Work In Progress, Issue 47 - Metal workers win national maternity benefits - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa WIP 1987: National maternity agreement in the metal industry
A2.16 CCAWUSA moves to parental rights SALB 1987: The main principles of a parental rights agreement
A2.17 Metalworkers win 6 months paid maternity SALB 1987: Maternity agreement in the engineering industry
A2.18 Advances in maternity agreements SALB 1987: a review of issues and achievements
A2.19 Ccawusa wins a new deal for working parents SALB 1988: first parental rights agreement, with Pick €˜n Pay
A2.20 Working mothers win new rights SALB 1988: 'recent advances in maternity rights for working women'
A2.21 Workers as fathers Agenda 37, 1998: Magazine article on Saccawu and parental rights
   Sexual Harassment  
A2.22 Fosatu Worker News, Number 26 - Workers trap sex offender - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa A 1983 Fosatu Worker News article about Dunlop workers trapping a manager demanding sex from female employees.
A2.23 Fosatu Worker News, Number 32 - Isithebe workers sexuallly humiliated - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa FWN 1984: Workplace sexual harassment story
A2.24 Sexual harassment - NUMSA NUMSA, 2000, resolution on sexual harassment
A2.25 Gender Shattered dreams NUMSA News 2004: Sexual harassment charge against company upheld in the Labour Court
  Child Care  
A2.26 Fosatu Worker News, Number 31 - Child care centres needed - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Afric FWN 1984: Need for child care centres
A2.27 Speak, No 32 - Workers are parents too! - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Speak, 1990, COSATU's national child care campaign; workers take their children to work
A2.28 Speak, No 34 - Sharing the load' an exciting new book with a vision of the new South Africa_ - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Speak 1991: Launch of a SACCAWU book on struggles for gender equality, parental rights and childcare
A2.29 Work in Progress, No 78 - Union tackles gender issues WIP, 1991, Review of Sharing the Load; the struggle for gender equality, parental rights and childcare
A2.30 Starting Early: a childcare provision framework for workers Naledi 1996: survey and the way forward to a 'national framework for childcatre'
  Other Demands  
A2.31 Grassroots, Volume 8 No 8 - Women used as cheap labour - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Grassroots 1987: Example of the use of women as cheap labour
A2.32 Women workers Resolution on Women Workers NUMSA 1987 Congress Resolution
A2.33 Speak, No 23 - Health is our right union women are organising to fight cervical cancer - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Speak 1989: Demand for pap smears
A2.34 Speak, No 37 - Danger! night shift - Disa Digital Imaging Project of South Africa Speak 1989: SACCAWU demand safe transport home at night
 
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