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The Women's Movement
Title: The Women's Movement
Category: History / European History
Details: Words: 4428 | Pages: 18.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Women's Movement
The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998) The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in Australia
The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 makes sex discrimination against the law. The Act gives effect to Australia's obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and parts of International Labour Organisation Convention 156. Its major objectives are to:
* promote equality between men and women;
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…showed last 75 words of 4428 total…and Arbitration Commission accepted the principle that there should be 'equal pay for equal work'. The Commission ruled that employers had to pay the same salaries to women and men doing the same work and that all the changes had to take place by the beginning of 1972. Until this time, most women's wages were allowed to be only 75% of men's wages for the same work. Many people had fought for years to change this unfairness.
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