"Liberated Women Remember Your Pill"
Barnard women occupying Hamilton, Low, Avery, Fayerweather, and Mathematics often found themselves assigned to administrative or menial work by strike leaders. Many female participants recall male strike leaders encouraging women to embrace their own sexual liberation while simultaneously treating them as social and political subordinates. There were no women on the Strike Executive Committee, and only seven women among the seventy members of the Strike Coordinating Committee. In the chaos and intensity of the April 1968 campus occupation, women strikers did not have a forum to address the underlying sexism laid bare by the campus protests.
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