Their jobs and services: her future. The welfare state is vital to all women. been done for free in the home. Release from the ovcrwnciming Ie sponsibility for the private care of the elderly, collaren, those who were sick or had disabilities, allowed a whole generation of women to get jobs and attain a measure of ecoпотис тасоспаспсе From the increased confidence and combativity of a generation of women in work and higher education, the women's liberation movement of the 60s and 70s was born. In combinadon with a labour move ment that it had awakened to womca's interests, this movement won such fictories as the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act, the Abortion Act and a whole raft of other equal opportunity legislation.
The offensive against the welfare state is in a very direct way an offen. sive against women. It secks to push the burden of care back into the private realm of the family, and onto women as a very central part of the workforce of the welfare state.
The offensive against the welfare state nas occa carrica out in 2 myriad of different ways. The gorin public funding and introduced They have changed the way reve. nue is collected to construct a more direct link berween local levels of service and local revenues (c.g. mar-