Cluster One: Characteristics of women's movement actors

Stage

1. Emerging/re-emerging: formation of new organisations; rehabilitation of older organisations toward new goals.

2. Growth: expansion in numbers of organisations, activities.

3. Consolidation: organisations have structure, endurance and regular support; institutionalised in community and government arenas.

4. Decline/abeyance: decrease in organisations, members and activities over the period; latent organisational activity primarily by individuals.

Closeness to left

1. Very close: groups formally ally with or work with political parties and/or trade unions of the left. Ideas from the movement are taken up by left-wing parties in party platforms. Activists have internal power positions in the left-wing parties.

2. Close: groups formally ally with or work with political parties and/or trade unions of the left. They do not have internal power positions in the parties or unions and if the left takes up the ideas of movements they do so without stating so and bring these ideas to fit the party line.

3. Not close: movement and the left are remote or hostile to each other.

Priority of issue

1. High: issue is one of the top priorities of the women's movement activists and serves to forge alliances among the various wings and tendencies.

2. Moderate: not a uniting issue, but is a priority for some activists and organisations.

3. Low: not a priority for any organisation, but mentioned by some. Not on the agenda. Not present at all on agendas of individuals and organisations in the movement.

Cohesion

1. Cohesive: movement organisations active on the issue agree on the frame and/or policy proposals.

2. Divided: movement organisations active on the issue disagree on the frame and/or policy proposals.