WOMEN’S HISTORY: WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT Inquiry Question: “How have the rights and...
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WOMEN’S HISTORY: WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT Inquiry Question: “How have the rights and freedoms of Australian women changed over the post war period?”
WOMEN’S HISTORY: WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT Inquiry Question: “How have the rights and freedoms of Australian women changed over the post war period?”
WOMENS HISTORY: WOMENS LIBERATION MOVEMENT Inquiry Question:
How have the rights and freedoms of Australian women changed over
the post war period?
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Womens Liberation Movement Left Hand SideRight Hand Side
Question 1: What was the Womens Liberation Movement? Retro Active 2
pg218 (Group 1) Article pg111 (Group 2) Question 3: What were some
of the methods women used to achieve change? Retro Active pg
218.219. Primary Source (Groups use both sources) Question 2: What
were some of the things the Womens Liberation Movement tried to
change? Retro Active pg216.219.(Group 1) Primary Source (Groups
1&2) Article pg 104-109 (Ideological divisions in the 1970s and
1980s) (Group 2) Question 4: What did the Womens Liberation
Movement achieve? Retro Active pg 221-224 (Group 1) Article pg 115
(Making demands: winning some, losing some) (Group 2)
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In 2004, female earnings were 92% of male earnings, resulting
in a gender wage gap of 8%. Female/male earnings ratio among
full-time adult non-managerial employees - May 1974 to May
2004(a)
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Time Line 1957 The number of women and men voting is
approximately equal for the first time. 1960 The Food and Drug
Administration approves birth control pills 1964 Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act bars employment discrimination by private
employers, employment agencies, and unions based on race, sex, and
other grounds. To investigate complaints and enforce penalties, it
establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),
which receives 50,000 complaints of gender discrimination in its
first five years. 1966 In response to EEOC inaction on employment
discrimination complaints, twenty-eight women found the National
Organization for Women to function as a civil rights organization
for women. 1968 The first national women's liberation conference is
held in Chicago. 1968 The National Abortion Rights Action League
(NARAL) is founded.
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Marriage Trends The marriage rate follows the pattern of
prevailing economic and social conditions. Fallen in times of
depression & rises during immediate post-war years e.g. late
1940s. The highest rate was 12 per 1,000 of the population in 1942.
Since 1970 the marriage rate has declined, due to economic downturn
and rapid social change, such as 1. changes in divorce laws 2.
changes in attitudes to marriage and living arrangements
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Graph of marriage trends
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Divorce Trends The trend in divorce in Australia changed with
the introduction of the Family Law Act 1975 which came into
operation on 5 January 1976. It allowed only one ground for
divorce, an irretrievable breakdown in the marriage, measured as
the separation of the spouses for at least one year. This legal
change resulted in a large increase in the divorce rate in 1976.
The divorce rate was consistently higher in the 1980s and early
1990s than at any time before 1975.
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Quotes But the problem is that when I go around and speak on
campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, 'How
can I combine career and family? - Gloria Steinem (1934- ) "Male
and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be
equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment
according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides
those of their virtues and talents, - Olympe de Gouges The
education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail
to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for
all, - Aung San Suu Kyi (1945), It's hard to fight an enemy who has
outposts in your head, - Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970.
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Quotes Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy,
- Estelle R. Ramey. Men are taught to apologize for their
weaknesses, women for their strengths, - Lois Wyse. "The day will
come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the
fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then,
will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the
sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race." -
Susan B. Anthony "The family unit plays a critical role in our
society and in the training of the generation to come." - Sandra
Day O'Connor "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is
not to learn, but to unlearn." Gloria Steinem
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Images Images of different demonstrations for womens rights and
freedom