• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE0192

Office for Women

  • Previous name Office of the Status of Women
(From 1977 – )
  • Occupation Government department

Summary

The Office for Women (previously the Office of the Status of Women) works to mainstream women’s issues in Australian society and internationally. Its work with governments, the women’s sector, and the broader community is focused on three priority areas:

  • Reducing violence against women
  • Women’s equal place in society
  • Economic Independence.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Recording of a Women Writers Forum [sound recording]
  • National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
    • OSW - [Office of the Status of Women] - Third National Women's Consultative Concil - Jessie Street, Trust - 1989
    • Subject Index cards, alphabetical series (Relating to the Office of the Status of Women)
    • File registration and movement cards (Relating to the Office of the Status of Women)
  • NULL
    • Australian Council for Women - ACW - Collection - NJSN_AC-005
  • Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
    • Patricia Brennan records relating to Movement for the Ordination of Women Sydney, 1974-2009

Published resources

Related entries


  • Previous
    • Office of Women's Affairs (1974 - 1977)
  • Related Women
    • Turner, Patricia Ann (1952 - )
    • Summers, Anne Fairhurst (1945 - )
    • Calder, Rosemary Vivian
    • Brooks, Suzanne May (1945 - )
    • L'Orange, Helen
    • Sherry, Ann Caroline (1954 - )
    • Townsend, Kathleen
    • Taperell, Kathleen Joan (1939 - )
  • Related Organisations
    • Centre for Research for Women (1993 - )
  • Employee
    • Sawer, Marian (1946 - )

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