Women in Trade Unions network. (Notice of inaugural meeting) Brisbane
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Women in Trade Unions Network (Queensland)
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Women in Trade Unions network. (Notice of inaugural meeting) Brisbane
Women in Trade Unions Network (Queensland)
Women at work : what's it all about?
Flyer advertising three sessions on the subject "Women at Work: What's it all about?", to take place in the E.G. Whitlam Room on 21st and 22nd Septembe. No year is given. Two of the sessions feature films to be screen and discussion afterwards; the third session feautures a discussion of the Women's Trade Union Congress held the previous month. Printed on yellow paper in black ink.
Should unions be concerned about "women's" issues? Discussion paper no. 1, September 1975.
Discussion of the reasons working women have lower rates of participation in unions and their activities, and whether unions should aim to redress these issues.
Working Women's Centre
Should unions be concerned about childcare? Discussion paper no. 2, October 1975.
Discussion of the necessity for unions to concern themselves with working parents' access to childcare, and how the lack of it can prevent women from entering employment.
Working Women's Centre
Women rally!! July 22nd 10:30 am King George Square.
Flyer advertising a rally for women in King George Square on July 22nd, at 10:30 am. No year is given, but most likely is 1977. The other side of the paper details the demands which are to be raised at the rally.
Should unions be concerned about migrant women workers? Discussion paper no. 3, November 1975.
Discussion of migrant women in the work force, the ways in which unions can support them and why they should do so.
Working Women's Centre
Do women really get equal pay? Discussion paper no. 4, February 1976.
Discussion of whether the average wages of women and men are roughly equal, and the role of unions in ensuring that they become so in different career sectors.
Working Women's Centre
A message to Queensland women, 28 January 1986 / Margaret Reynolds
Contents of a fax sent to 'Queensland Women', detailing state government policies implemented in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia over ten years previous to 1986. It has a title page of many different news headlines, and a cover page with the Parliament of Australia - The Senate stationery heading and Ms Reynolds's signature.
Reynolds, Margaret, 1941-
Discussion of a conference presented by the Australian Labor Party on the subject 'Women in Politics'. There is discussion of the ALP's policies, intended to improve the lot of women, and evaluation of whether they will achieve their stated aims. Printed on white paper in black ink.
Price, Barbara
From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement,1930-1970
Forty open reel audiotapes of interviews, transcripts and documentation about the project, and accompanying posters.
From Lunchroom to Boardroom was an oral history project by historian Therese Collie and visual artist Judith Hewitson. The objective of the project was to record the stories of a wide variety of women who participated in the Queensland labor movement from the 1930s though to the 1970s. Funded in 1991 by the Australia Council, and supported by the Oral History Association of Queensland, the Union of Australian Women and the Trades and Labour Council. Interviews were conducted by Therese Collie. Transcripts of the interviews were compiled by Sue Pechey. Interviews with Joyce Murphy, Ivy Willey, Jenny Prohaska, Alice Hughes, Ivy Neilsen, Jean Bowden, Marie Crisp, Constance Healy, Jean O'Connor, Ida Welsh, Vi Cox, Susie Dickson, Frances Bishop, Julba Julba Woman Dance Troupe, Loma Thompson, Pat Bowe, Bessie Lymburner, and Elena Timms.
Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, Women's Equal Opportunity Committee