QUOTES - WOMEN Flashcards
KEY LEGAL REFORMS:
- in 1966, the marriage bar in the Commonwealth Public Service was lifted
- There was the Sex Discrimination Act 1984
- Family Law Act 1975
- Affirmative Action Act 1986
- in 1969, SA had the most progressive abortion laws as women could abort their child within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy however in no state was abortion completely legalised
- the oral contraceptive pill was introduced in 1961, however it initially carried a 27.5% luxury tax and was restricted to married white women
what ideas should references when talking about opposing ideas?
the separation within the feminist movement -> as “by the early 1980s women’s liberation has clearly fractured along ideological lines.” (Pratt et al.)
quote on increasing higher education
historians KATIE HOLMES + SARAH PINTO observed that “the increasing education of women was to be driver of social change” as women in higher education went from 7,000 in 1955 to over 21,000 by 1965
quote on labour force participation of women in the 50s
“labour force participation rate of women was 23% in 1954 and this grew to 34.3% in 1966” (Pratt et al.)
historian’s perspective on the patriarchal society of the 50s
Historian Patricia Grimshaw emphasised that “the 1950s seemed to be a man’s decade’
primary experience of one of the barroom activists
Feminist activist Merle Thornton explained that her actions of chaining herself to the Brisbane Regatta Hotel in 1965 “triggered a tsunami of responses”
Betty Friedan on the changing attitudes towards the restrictive gender roles within 1950s society?
IN HER 1963 novel ‘the feminine mystique’ she said that some women “want something more that [her] husband and [her] children”
historian point of view on the introduction of the oral contraceptive pill in 1961?
“a massive impact on the lives of millions of Australians”
statistics on the involvement of women in the political sphere in the 50s and 60s?
“from 1951 to 1966 there were no women elected to the House of Representatives” (Pratt et al.)
data on the important event for women’s journey to achieving equal pay?
after 1969, when the Australian Council of Trade Unions mounted a test case for equal pay for meat workers at the Arbitration Commission which ruled in favour of equal pay for equal work however this could only apply to a fifth of women in the workforce (Pratt et al.)
American feminist, Carol Hanisch on the second wave of feminism?
“the personal is political”
historian Marilyn Lake on the contribution of WEL in society?
“WEL’s intervention in the political process was effective in reinstating women as an electoral force”
Joyce Stevens, speaker at the 1st International Women’s Day March at 1975?
“what we look like is more important that what we do”
Elizabeth Reid on the role of women in society
“women are a colonised sex”
what was the resistance to these feminist reforms?
in 1979 the group ‘Women Who Want to Be Women’ was formed by Babette Francis which opposed these transformations for women
