- Entry type: Organisation
- Entry ID: AWE0706
Women’s Liberation Movement
Summary
The Women’s Liberation Movement submission on equal pay was delivered in 1969 to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, by Sylvia Shaw.
Details
Sylvia Shaw was co-founder (with Mary Owen) of the Melbourne Working Women’s Centre and a member of the Melbourne Women’s Liberation Movement. The Movement had branches in Glebe, Sydney, where members included Sue Bellamy and Diane Graham; and Canberra, ACT, where they included Suzanne Dixon, Carol Ambrose and Elizabeth Ward.
Autobiographical reflections by each of these women can be found in Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Different Lives: Reflections on the Women’s Movement and Visions of its Future (Penguin Books, 1987).
Please note: this entry is incomplete.
Archival resources
- State Library of South Australia
- Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
- State Library of New South Wales
Published resources
- Edited Book
- Resource
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