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We asked readers how they felt about a report suggesting feminism too focused on equality in senior positions

We asked their views on the relationship between the problems of the working class and feminism. Their responses show a wide range of experiences and opinions -. Strong supporters of workers feminists are deeply disappointed by the movement

Isabel Glasgow

As a single mother working with a 13 year old girl could not really

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be a feminist. Showing pressures daughter will face as it moves towards adulthood I realize that everyone has a way to go. But feminism is not the way the world is money. The media, including The Guardian, tend to look at the number of women on boards of directors, or is a liberal feminist right-wing politician, rather than looking at the reality of life. I was also very surprised by the hostility towards parents, especially mothers. Some of the comments on this website are poison very real to them, there is sometimes a feeling that if you are a mother, especially a mother working class, by default you should not have any parental launched.

do not think the question is how feminism represents workers in general, is how the media and politicians choose to portray. It is feminism that has the power to control what the advertisers, the music industry and the media tell us, if anything, feminists tend to be those that indicate how it can be harmful

Martin, Portsmouth

wage gap, maternity, opportunities for promotion, conditions of detention - were all addressed by feminism. But what bothers me is when feminists talk about research

equal

. When I see women lining up to work in coal mines, I think they are serious about it. Some of the social and political issues brought to glory by the suffragette movement were not necessarily on the vote itself, but because of the disparity between how the different classes were treated on the disproportionate effect of right of the wealthy elite obtained for themselves. We were making good progress in some of these areas, but it seems that we have removed from the radical feminism of the 1970s became less fashionable. As for me, feminism can not help my situation, I am poor, unemployed, and struggling to ? 45 a week. Whatever the glass ceiling, is whether or not I can afford to get the heater fixed me worried.

Lauren Paisley

I come from a working class with a single parent. I was a soldier and a teacher, and I worked with the children of the white working class in the criminal justice system. I see myself in the third wave of feminism. I'm tired of the dinosaurs of the second wave, which is currently in power conferences a privilege undeserved scolding me as an oppressor, but for me as a woman - usually when I sympathize with most of the goals. Just do not like the way they turned what should be the biggest civil rights movement in the story in a single issue lobbying movement that promotes their privilege gained rich western white women, ignoring all those suffered from patriarchy (including the working class men).

With my work, I saw the children of the working class are treated as disposable commodities of war by the government, or disposable crime problems for the criminal justice system. If eight times more women than men were in prison, it would be a feminist issue. If three times more women took their own lives every year as a feminist issue. The lack of support from the mental health of men is terrible, my (male) doctor does not know who to refer to a male patient support. It touches me personally, but these issues affect all women in the family too. There is much more we can accomplish as a team.

Ciara, Dublin, Ireland