Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Women are also underrepresented in prominent roles in
> most institutions -- journals, churches, political parties, etc. --
> on the (broadly defined) left, with the exception of those explicitly
> dedicated to feminism. On the whole, men (in or out of left-wing
> institutions) still speak louder than they ought.
The LRS, which disbanded a little over a decade ago, was an exception in many ways, both nationally and in at least two of the regions the central leadership was mostly women. That probably is one of the reasons it was one of the last of the "New Communist Groups" of the '70s to collapse.
Carrol