Native American women at the annual Navajo Fair in Window Rock, Ariz. Photo by Pat Murray/LNS
This woman is a member of the Toro family, that emigrated to the US from Puerto Rico over 20 years ago, and is one of 17 brothers and sisters She worked from the time she was ten years old and had to drop out of high school to help support the family. She married in her late teens and is now 22, having her third child. Her dream is to earn a high school equivalency diploma and a practical nursing degree. Her husband wants her to remain at home Photo by Laurie Leifer/LNS
Women fighters of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front lead a march ot 6,000 women through the streets of Keren of November 1, 1977. Women carried banners reading "Without the full participation of women a free and progressive society cannot be created" and "Equality through struggle, equality through participation in production." The day marked the founding of the Keren branch of the Association of Eritrean Women. Keren, one of Eritrea's large cities, was liberated from Ethiopian occupation in July 1977, during the continuing guerilla war for independence, Photo by EPLF/LNS
Palestinian women in a Beirut, Lebanon textile factory run by the Palestintan Liberation Organization. Since the war quieted in Lebanon, the PLO has reopened old workshops and established new ones for producing clothIng, uniforms, furniture and toys for children (including map puzzles of Palestine). Each workshop elects a "revolutionary committee" of five workers to lead them in improving the workplaces and in political discusslons and classes. In the past decade, Palestinian women have increasingly broken out of their traditional roles in the home to participate in PLO production.
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Women getting out of work in Queens, New York, USA.
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Two young Cuban women pass by poster which reads: "A million women
in production means a billion pesos in created value.”
Photo by LMS
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