In 2010 a group of women activists came together within the context of looming welfare reform and cuts in funding to women’s centres to build a united campaign to mark the Centenary of International Women’s Day 2011. Those women agreed six key principles on which to base the campaign and unite the sector behind it.

What transpired in the last ten years is documented here by those activists and it is the first fully comprehensive, accessible account of women’s struggle for these basic rights against a back-drop of the misogynistic male-dominated institutions of state and society. It maps the early days of Reclaim the Agenda.