• 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.

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Published resources

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks
    • Betty Fisher : SUMMARY RECORD
  • Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
    • First Ten Years of Sydney Women's Liberation Collection, ca. 1969-ca. 1980
  • State Library of New South Wales
    • Jill Lennon and Gwen Bloomfield interview some foundation members of the Women's Liberation Movement, 1995

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