THE CAMMI6IVAGESHOVKV0RK

The New York WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK COMMITTEE is part of a nationwideorganization that is campaigning for WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK fromthe government for ALL WOMENmarried or not with or eithout children with or withoutnative or immigrant lesbian or straight a second job

HOUSEWORK IS OUR COMMON PROBLEMLET'S MAKE IT OUR COMMON STRUGGLEWe demand WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK because we cannot afford to workendless hours in the home and then depend on a Ban or on welfareor have to take a second job BECAUSE WE HAVE NO MONEY we cancall our own. Nobody works as much as we do. WE ALL HEED MOREMONEY NOT MORE WORK.

WE'RE NEVER UNEMPLOYED WE'RE DUSTBusiness and Government profit from our work - THEY SHOULD PAYFOR IT. We know they need us so we can set the terms.

WE DEMANDWAGES FOR HOUSEWORKTo cut down on housework - to eat out, get machines to

do some of the work, and refuse to be slaves to thehouse

To be able to decide working conditions and wages onthe second job, and if_ we want it in the first place

To stand up to men when we work WITH them and when wework FOR them - if we had our own money we could

To decide what our sex lives should be like

To decide if, when and under what conditions to havechildren

To give our children what we want them to have

To demand and WIN paid holidays away from ALL work

To demand and WIN decent housing

30IN OUR CAMPAIGNAll over the US and in several other countries of the worldwomen are organizing speak outs, rallies, marches for WAGESFOR HOUSEWORK. We speak in different languages but we are allsaying the same thing.

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WAGES n« HOUSEWORKNOTICE TO ALL GOVERNMENTS

The women of the world are serving notice. We cleanyour homes and factories. We raise the next generation ofworkers for you. Whatever else we may do, we are thehousewives of the world. In return for our work, you haveonly asked us to work harder.

We are serving notice to you that we intend to be paidfor the work we do. We want wages for every dirty toilet,every painful childbirth, every indecent assault, every cupof coffee and every smile. And if we don't get what we want,then we will simply refuse to work any longer.

We have brought our children to be good citizens andto respect your laws and you have put them in factories,in prisons, in ghettos and in typing pools. Our childrendeserve more than you can offer and now we willbring them up to EXPECT more.

We have borne babies for you whenyou. needed more workers, and we havesubmitted to sterilization when youdidn't. Our wombs are not governmentproperty any longer.

We have scrubbed and polished andoiled and waxed and scoured until our armsand backs ached, and you have only createdmore dirt. Now you will rot in your owp__garbage.

We have worked in theisolation of our homes when you.needed us to and we have takenon a second job too when youneeded that. Now we want todecide WHEN we work, HOW wework, and WHO we work for.We want to be able todecide NOT TO WORK AT ALL—like you.

We are teachers,,and nurses andsecretaries andprostitutes andactresses andchildcareworkers andhostessesand

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and cooks and cleaning ladies-and. worjcersof every variety. We have sweated whileyou have grown rich. Now we want backwealth we have produced.WE WANT IT IN CASH, RETROACTIVE ANDIMMEDIATELY. AND WE WANT ALL OF IT.

CAMPAIGN FOR WAGES FORHOUSEWORK

HOUSEWORK-UMttlDVJORKThe crime against us internationally,from which all other crimes against usflow, is our life sentence of houseworkat home and outside, servicing men,children, and other women, in order toproduce and reproduce the working class.For this work we are never paid a wage.

This crime of work pid wagelessnessbrands us for life as the weaker sex anddelivers us powerless to employers,government planners and legislators,doctors, the police, prisons and mentalinstitutions as well as the individualmen for a lifetime of servitude andinprisonment.

Our campaign for wages for housework isour demand for power to refuse thesocial and sexual onslaught on our minds,our bodies and our relations — in aword, our demand for power to refuse thisdestiny of work which we carry in everycountry, wherever we find ourselves.

THE OWE

We have been divided by the status andincome of the men we marry, by whetheror not we work fulltime in the home, bywhether or not we are with men, by whetheror not we have children, by whether or notwe are natives or immigrants, and bylanguage, race, and nation and the techno-logy of our exploitation.

But our destiny and the roots of ourexploitation — our wageless work in thehome — are the same in every country ofthe world, and so is our struggleagainst it.

LET'S UNITE TO

WAGES FOR HOUSEWORKFROM ALL GOVERNMENTS

FOR ALL WOMEN

AGAINST WOMENINTERNATIONALLY

New York WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK COMMITTEE