WOMEN'S RIGHTS

WHEREAS, women workers are an especially oppressed group; and

WHEREAS, women remain highly concentrated in the lowest paid, least skilled jobs; and

WHEREAS, women suffer disproportionately the heavy burden of poverty due to low pay, high unemployment and job discrimination; and

WHEREAS, women are disadvantaged and denied equal opportunities for jobs at all levels of education; and

WHEREAS, women workers are often forced to bear a double burden as mothers and wage earners; and WHEREAS, women have always been considered responsible for bearing the burden of maternity and infant care:

RESOLVED, that the AFT do all in its power to impress on the locals and the AFL-CIO that changes must take place and that the AFT include the following in its contracts and programs:

• Equal hiring, promotional, tenure, and salary opportunities for men and women educational employees at all levels;

• Child-care facilities in or near school buildings and college campuses for teachers and neighborhood residents;

• Accumulated sick leave and personal leave shall be available for all educational employees who are natural or adoptive parents; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT locals file charges with HEW to halt the unfair and unequal treatment of our sisters.