Summary
An umbrella organization for Palestinian women’s groups, founded in 1965, which in Chapter 8 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction remains active in the social and political spheres and links gender equality with national liberation (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1555-1570).
Details
- It is placed in a line of women’s organizing from the Arab Women’s Union of 1929 through the Palestinian Women’s Work Committees formed in the late 1970s, whose mass recruitment left many women’s organizations with memberships in the thousands (lines 1555-1570).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Arab Women’s Union, Nada Elia