Dolle Mina

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Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) was a 1970s Dutch feminist group which campaigned for equal rights for women. It was named after early Dutch feminist Wilhelmina Drucker.[1]

Dolle Mina had a Marxist outlook, and brought attention to the struggle by women to gain equality in the trade unions, which routinely avoided expanding the rights of women members when it meant concessions by male "breadwinners". The group had activist campaigns, including protests and publications,[2] to promote women's right to abortion, equal pay for equal work, childcare, and even access to public toilets.[3]

Dolle Mina's protests lasted throughout the 1970s. They were characterized by their humour, often inverting gender roles.[4] In 1970, the group co-organized a "Discrimination Fair" to draw attention to the issue of equal pay. Central to the debate was the Netherlands' failure to ratify the International Labour Organization Convention ILO-100, which mandated equal pay for equal work. The Netherlands ratified ILO-100 in 1971, although it did not have an immediate impact.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Kaplan, Gisela (2012). Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory). Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 9780415636810. 
  2. ↑ Kaplan, Gisela (2012). Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory). Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9780415636810. 
  3. ↑ Van Der Vleuten, Anna (2013). The Price of Gender Equality (Epub) Member States and Governance in the European Union. Ashgate Publishing. p. 75. ISBN 9781409498063. 
  4. ↑ Denis, Marie and Suzanne Van Rokeghem (1992). Le féminisme est dans la rue: Belgique 1970-1975. De Boeck Supérieur. p. 43. ISBN 9782873110093. 
  5. ↑ Van Der Vleuten, Anna (2013). The Price of Gender Equality (Epub) Member States and Governance in the European Union. Ashgate Publishing. p. 81. ISBN 9781409498063. 
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