These demands were for equal pay, equal educational and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, free 24-hour nurseries, legal and financial independence for all women, the right to a self defined sexuality and an end to discrimination against lesbians, and freedom for all women from intimidation by the threat or use of violence or sexual coercion regardless of marital status and an end to the laws, assumptions and institutions which perpetuate male dominance and aggression to women.
It was organised by a group of women who had been participating in the History Workshop seminars including Ruskin students Arielle Aberson and Sally Alexander, and historian Sheila Rowbotham.
Male attendees, which included Stuart Hall, ran the child care centre so the women could attend.
Rowbotham stated that the move to the Oxford Union was “poignant considering it was an environment that was meant to produce male orators who would become prime ministers”.
At the plenary session, the seventh demand was added, which combined two campaigns of the Women's Liberation Movement against rape and domestic violence.
It read "We demand freedom from intimidation by threat or use of violence or sexual coercion, regardless of martial status, and an end all laws, assumptions and institutions which perpetuate male dominance and men's aggression towards women".
There was live music, including Frankie Armstrong, street theatre on the theme of YBA Wife?, and a disco on the Saturday night.
Twenty male volunteers ran the day care, supervising more than a hundred children.