Women's Liberation Movement

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.

Please note: this entry is incomplete.

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).

Members

• Dowse, Sara (1938 - )
• Fisher, Elizabeth M. (1925 - )

Related People

• Gent, Alison (1920 - )

See also

• Scutt, Jocelynne A. (ed.), Different Lives, Reflections on the Women's Movement and Visions of its Future, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic, 1987. [ Details... ]