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Convention No. 100 addresses equal pay for work of equal value, including additional benefits and the valuation of differently gendered occupations.
International Labour Organization / 3 minsJones examines domestic work and racism within progressive organizations, demanding recognition of Black women’s organizing experience and leadership.
Claudia JonesDing Ling connects marriage gossip, childcare and judgments of women’s progress in Yan’an, asking who bears responsibility when demands for self-reliance meet exhaustion.
Ding LingLu Xun challenges schools’ surveillance of young women while pathologizing unmarried women himself; the essay requires criticism of both discipline and its explanation.
鲁迅Lu Xun asks how income, household property and social power sustain women’s choices, while questioning the public consumption of individual sacrifice.
Lu XunKollontai opposes possession in love while making intimacy answer to collective duty. Who defines love’s obligations after the old morality loses authority?
Alexandra KollontaiKollontai connects freedom in intimate life to kitchens, laundries and childcare, asking who does domestic work and what collective provision must change.
Alexandra KollontaiDu Bois examines Black women’s work, desire and motherhood. His tribute also asks us whether dignity should depend on usefulness, endurance or purity.
W. E. B. Du BoisXiang Jingyu connects marriage choice, education finance and collective childcare, asking what institutions make women's self-determination possible.
Xiang JingyuYosano Akiko’s 1918 intervention rejects motherhood as women’s defining role; its defense of economic independence also reveals the limits of self-reliance.
与謝野晶子 / 3 minsLu Xun examines how honors for women’s chastity shift responsibility for violence and poverty, replacing praise for sacrifice with demands to end its production.
Lu XunAkiko Yosano’s 1916 essay rejects motherhood as every woman’s destiny while retaining historical limits concerning family, health and care.
Akiko Yosano