... pornography and male violence towards women as the way forward. Social feminists saw women's problem as being a combination of male domination and class exploitation and saw the end of capitalism as being instrumental to achieving gender equality. In 1977 women began to 'Reclaim the Night' by marching through Soho in protest against male intimidation and violence (Soho Sixteen Support Sisterhood, 1978). In 1970 women's average gross weekly earnings were just 54.5% of men's. In 1968 women trade unionists finally made an impact on the Trade Union movement, when female workers at the Adair 2 Ford car factory went on strike, campaigning for their work to be classed as semiskilled like the men, rather than unskilled. This limited success had a formative effect upon the newly emerging WLM. Although the Equal Pay Act came into effect in 1970, improvement was slow and employers simply changed the women's job descriptions to carry ...

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