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Active from the 1970s to 1980s, Wages Due Lesbians was a committee participating in the Wages for Housework campaign. The group eventually became their own entity, focusing on lesbian issues under the campaign. They believed wages for housework was vital for lesbian women to be free from men and the system that makes it difficult for lesbian women to gain employment and become single mothers.
Active from the 1970s to 1980s, Wages Due Lesbians was a committee participating in the Wages for Housework campaign. The group eventually became their own entity, focusing on lesbian issues under the campaign. They believed wages for housework was vital for lesbian women to be free from men and the system that makes it difficult for lesbian women to gain employment and become single mothers. In July 1977, Francie Wyland, a key member of Wages Due Lesbian, published “Motherhood, Lesbianism and Child Custody”, a booklet preceding the launch of the Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund (LDMF). The LDMF would formally launch in 1978 as a sub-group of Wages Due Lesbian, and would help lesbian mothers gain custody of their children until disbandment in the early 1980s.
