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The right to breastfeed in public

Updated on 12 June 2007

By Channel 4 News

New equality proposals will give women the right, among other things, to breastfeed in public.

Good news for women golfers - and nursing mothers. New equality proposals will stop private clubs from treating women members differently from men, and give mothers the legal right to breastfeed in public.

Ministers say the single equality bill is designed to bring together 40 pieces of dispirate legislation.

But some equal rights campaigners say it won't tackle far more fundamental discrimination - like pay, employment and working conditions.

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