Women

1. Women ByMellisaNicholson

2. HOW WOMEN HAVE CHANGED OVER TIME AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS WOMEN HAVE MADE

3. 1943- *Dorothy Tangney was the first women to be elected as senate. *Enid Lyons widow of the late Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons was the first women to elected to House of representatives. 1949- Enid Lyons become Australia’s first female cabinet minister. 1960- Women’s movement began in the U.S.

4. June 10 1963- Equal Pay Act was in action. Basing payment of gender was now illegal. 1969- First time in Australia it was reported that the Women’s Liberation Movement has started. 1970- *A group pf women called public meeting in Sydney to discus the women’s liberation cause. May *National conference was held in Australia where women’s liberationists groups could discuss the issue of their fight, which was; childcare, equal pay, sexist language, women’s health and higher educational opportunities for women.

5. Women were still limited to their employment opportunities. Many things like sexual harassment were common in the workplace. Women’s liberationists declared that they would lonely gain equality through direct action, by protecting and media action and that’s what women did. 1972- Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) was formed. December 1972- Whitlam Labour party (that had just come to power) was particularly responsive to the need to respond to and investigate women’s issues. 1973- *Prime minister Whitlam appointed Elizabeth Reid as the women’s advisor to the prime minister. *The Maternity Leave Act established the right of women to be able to choose work and to have children. This Act has protected the n\jobs of the women in the Commonwealth Public Service workforce and given the women 12 months unpaid maternity leave.

6. 1974- A women’s affairs section was established in the office of prime minister and cabinet. June 1977- Anti-Discrimination Act had stopped discrimination in groups of race, sex and marital status .This law allowed women to gain positions in the workforce that had previously been closed to closed to them. 1979- Maternity Leave Act was extended to most all jobs in the Australian workforce. 1984- The Sex Discrimination Act was one step closer towards ending discrimination against women and other groups.

7. 1986- The Equal Opportunity fro Women Act was passed. This Act introduced the concept of affirmative action. The aim of this law was to identify and remove any barriers stopping women from having any opportunities dismissed in the Australian workforce.

8. Women’s Liberationists after WWII

9. Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) Louisa Lawson spend her early year in the Australian bush. Louisa married Niels Larson. She had kids and experienced the hard life during goldfields. In 1988 she began a Publication called The Dawn, which was produced by women and actively promoting the cause of women’s rights. Louisa over the years dealt with many issues for example; inequality women.

10. This issue meant she dealt with the rights to protect women under marriage, property and divorce laws, demands for improved educational opportunities for women, the provision of child care, prison reform, provision of shelters for homeless and battered women, equal employment opportunities and in particular, the right of women to vote. Louisa was the spokes women for many women all across Australia. She pushed for some many different issues.

11. Germaine Greer Germaine Greer was born on 29th January 1989, in Melbourne Australia. Germaine was liberationist who realized a book of women and their sufferings. The book was called The Female Eunuch (1970). Germaine felt she could achieve fulfilment in art, music and literature, Germaine did so and earned honours in English and French Literature at Melbourne University, then studied at Cambridge University of Warwick.

12. Germaine has wrote and appeared on television talk show while lecturing on Elizabeth And Jacobean drama. Is was when she appeared nude for a Dutch magazine her book was published. Her book was about Women’s strugglers to achieve equality. The book helped put the women’s movement and turned the Book Female Eunuch into one to the most important voices in feminism. So really Germaine did not just write a great inspirational book but she also helped women’s movement.

13. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN

14. Equal Pay For Women In Australia women didn’t have the sane rights as men. The traditional role for women was to be a wife, mother and to maintain the household to the satisfaction of her husband. Women’s wager were less than men in these days. But in the 1890’s that started to change as women started wining rights which would ultimately give women full equality with men. Is was until early 1960’s when newspapers published separate jobs listings for men and women. The newspapers were categorized according to gender, with a higher levels jobs listed almost all under “Help Wanted – Male. Some were listed as Male jobs and Women jobs and with a separate pay scales. Separate meaning unequal. Between the 1950 and 1960 women with full time jobs earned on average between 59-64 per cent for every dollar their male partner earned in the same job. It was until the Equal Pay Act on June 10, 1963 that thing began to change, only because it become illegal to pay women lower rate for the same job males have. Demonstrable differences in seniority merit the quality or quantity of work, or other considerations might merit different pay, but basing gender on how much their got pay could no longer be used.

15. It was even before WWII that women were taking a strong stand about equal pay. One question on equal pay; women’s suffrage which was achieving very little this was because unions were not backing the right of women and governments clung to the old traditional ideas. This was partly because women seldom entered politics. The equal pay campaign was in the hands of the Untied Associations and the council of action for equal pay. Muriel Heagney worked for the council and also published a book entitled Are Women Taking Men’s Jobs. This in indicates that women were starting to have some control over equal pay and equality. ON the 13th August 1945 the government announced that women have a rate of 75 per cent of the male wage in the twelve vital industries. After the war women were expected to return home to become mothers and housewives again. Women were not to pleased with that expectation and they weren’t going to follow it.

16. In 1949 a deputation led by Jessie Street met with Prime Minister Chifley for one hour. Chifley announced that his opinion was that men were not as reliable as men in the public service, and that a bill to end sex discrimination would be unconstitutional. The equal pay issue was the be referred to the Arbitration Court. An annual report was given and in 1949 it was the end of the twenty year of “continuous effort towards gaining legal equality of status for Australian women”. The report also noted that some ex-service benefits were no longer valid. Women who worked were not protected from wage reductions. In 1955 the U.S supported our claim from New South Wales Teachers Federation fro equal pay. Evidence was given to committee secondary education. New South Wales government also allowed women who had lived in any part of the Commonwealth for three years to obtain a divorce. In the end the government and unions justified the dismissals by stating that to work was of temporary nature, by favouring the women.

17. Bibliography • Internet: • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/women_at_war_06.shtml • http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html • http://www.applesfor • health.comhttp://archive.salon.com/people/bc/1999/06/22/greer/index1.html/noise1.htm • Books: • Experience of Nationhood • Australian in the Twentieth Century in the 1940’s • Australian in the Twentieth Century in the 1960’s • The Population Boom

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