Andrew Sage

in every camp and have every persuasion who are aiming to push the country in a particular direction.

But at least at this point in time, there was an ambivalence towards the, the, how the political, how much of the population they just needed to see the results.

And for a lot of people in the present day, the change, the revolution, whatever you want to call it, isn't going to come from an ideological transformation, a well-worded argument or arrangement of...

you know, pros, it's going to come from a lived experience where their life has improved in some way, in some form or fashion by action, by a project that actually puts the change into practice.

And so that's really what the neutral movement had been about from the beginning, being part of the community, being part of the people, taking part in, you know, supporting them, which is why they had the popular mandate.

And then once they got into power,

All of their efforts were focused on, indeed, trying to actually put into place an alternative for all the flaws that it may have had, and I'll get to that shortly.

And that they did.

You know, they organized a center for popular education.

They organized teacher training and sought to make secondary schools and colleges more accessible to people.

They introduced maternity leave for women, although notably party members who were women were pressured to come back to work immediately after having children.

So again, we'll get to those flaws.

There was still inequality in pay between men and women, but the New Journal movement did make efforts to mandate equal pay and to engage in some changes toward equality.

addressing the inequality between men and women in the country however a revolution was still needed within the revolution as it has tended to be across these revolutions you know across these years usual stuff women were still doing the most of the housework and both sexes were expected to take part in political engagement so you had women in the party in the new jewel movement

But it was a sort of an expectation of equality in some respects.

Like, yeah, come out to work, even though you just had children, because everybody else is coming out to work.

And yet it was like, oh yeah, y'all can keep on doing the housework.

We're not going to take on our load there.

Yep.

It's, that's funny.