"We Need a Government of Men and Women...!"

Abstract

While the overthrow of capitalism based on private property removes the major obstacle to the elimination of the oppression of women, only struggle by women and men in every group at every level of society will secure and extend the advances made possible by socialism. The follow ing report of the Second National Congress of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanos (FMC) gives a glimpse of one process by which changes occur. It is important as "raw data" which we hope will stimulate deeper analysis of the meaning of women's liberation in its relationship to building so cialism. Such an analysis needs to investigate the process critically as well as sympathetically so that women in other movements can learn from its weaknesses as well as from its strengths.