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Working Women's Charter Committee
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Working Women's Charter Committee (1978).
Objectives - To implement the Australian Council of Trade Unions Working Women's Charter. To reflect the changing needs of working women in the Charter. To bring women unionists together and to involve more women in their unions so that unions will take the needs of women members more seriously and so that they will view issues in terms other than strictly industrial.
Publicists - Barbara Nelson Atkin, Shirley Betts, Marie Crisp, Mary Kelly, Margaret McFarlane, Jean O'Connor, Thora Soranson, Rath Thomas.
Notes: Also involved Labour Women (Australian Labor Party). Absorbed Queensland Women's Trade Union Committee Membership open only to members of the Trades and Labour Council affiliated unions. The Charter idea and a first version arose from the Australian Women's Trade Union Conference (August 1976). The Charter was amended at the Working Women's Charter Campaign Conference (August, 1977) and presented to the 1977 A.C.T.U. Congress where an A.C.T.U. Charter was adopted. The Queensland W.W.C.C. began in November, 1978.