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Equal Shares For The Au Pairs “He works the car, she the sink She’s not here to think Sits with the paper, discuss the news She doesn’t have political views” “Diet"—the Au Pairs NEW YORK—Unlike the women she tends to write about, Lesley Woods has views on absolutely everything including politics.

May 1, 1982
Rick Johnson

THE BEAT GOES ON

Equal Shares For The Au Pairs

“He works the car, she the sink

She’s not here to think

Sits with the paper, discuss the news

She doesn’t have political views”

“Diet"—the Au Pairs NEW YORK—Unlike the women she tends to write about, Lesley Woods has views on absolutely everything including politics. As lead singer-lyricistguitarist with English rock group Au Pairs these ideas are filtered through her obsessive awareness of the injustices perpetrated against women by men, and the group’s hard sound of jangly early Led Zep guitars plus a Gang Of Four-ish funk rhythm section. It’s a neat trick: a sexual approach to an antisexist subject working from a solidly commercial framework that neither devalues the questions of feminism but seldom hits you over the head with it.

“I write from personal experience,” Ms. Wood explained in the dressing room of Manhattan rock club Ritz. “I don’t mean that these things have (necessarily) happened to me—and it has nothing to do with feminism as a movement, but I write about what I know and if that’s the "way it turns out.

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