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Equal Pay

Jack Dwyer

Z296/Box 8 – Equal pay, 1959-1970

Richard Eves

N358/294 - Socialist Workers Party, 'Women demand abortion rights, safe contraception, equal pay, jobs, access to education, childcare, affirmative action. Vote Socialist Workers Party.' [poster], no date

N358/295 - South Australian Regional Women's Policy Collective, 'We have high expectations. Women need: job creation in satisfying occupations, funded training programmes emphasising non-traditional roles, an end to employer discrimination, free on-the-job and training childcare, real equal employment opportunities and pay, unions to fight for their rights.' [poster]

Della and E.V. Elliott

N343/1 - Trade Union Equal Pay Committee minute book for general meetings, 1946-1950

N343/2 - Trade Union Equal Pay Committee minute book for executive meetings, 1946-1949

N343/3 - Trade Union Equal Pay Committee correspondence, reports, bulletins and agendas, 1948-1950

N343/4 - Council of Action for Equal Pay correspondence and reports regarding women's wages and basic wage enquiry, 1937-1941

N343/5 - Equal Pay Campaign Committee meeting minutes, correspondence and campaign materials, 1940-1970

N343/6 - Trade Union Equal Pay Committee bank book, no date

N343/13 – Deputation to J.J. Cahill regarding equal pay, 1957

N343/15 - Congress minutes including resolution by Della Nicholas (Elliott) regarding equal pay, 1947

N343/18 - Correspondence between New South Wales Teachers' Federation and Della Nicholas (Elliott) regarding equal pay, 1950

N343/26 - Are women paid men's rates? - pamphlet issued by Council of Action for Equal Pay, c. 1943

N343/29 - International Labour Office press statement and draft resolution regarding status of women and women's wages, c. 1970s

N343/32 - Correspondence and regulations regarding standards of amenities, regulations and wages for women, c. 1946

N343/33 - Newspaper clippings and flyers regarding equal pay campaigns, 1940-1980

Audrey Johnson

N162/148 - Union of Australian Women, Women and Wages in the War Years 1940-1945, Sheetmetal Workers' Union, 1982

N612/180 - Photograph of a street march with banners reading Child Endowment Policy and Equal Pay for Women, c. 1950s

Jill Matthews

ANUA424/366 – Equal pay and equal opportunity in New Zealand, Prue Hyman (sound cassette), 1988

Geoff McDonald

P122/42 – Campaign for equal pay petition, 1963

P122/120 – Victorian Labor College Equal Pay Committee circular, 1955

P122/550 – What Do We Mean By Equal Pay?, Trades Hall Council Melbourne, 1966

P39/53 – Leaflets – equal pay, c. 1957-1967

P94/54/12 – Equal pay, c. 1969

P94/1/631 – ‘Equal Pay for Women in War Industries’, United States Dept of Labor Women’s Bureau, 1942

D.H. Plowman

N184/74 - Federal Meat Industry Award - Judgement of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission regarding equal pay, 1969

Mavis and Alec Robertson

N437/747 - Are Women taking Men's Jobs: A survey of women's work in Victoria with special regard to equal status, equal pay, and equality of opportunity by Muriel Heagney, 1935

N437/825 - Women under socialism, first-hand information: Information, facts, figures on equal rights in the GDR, 1974

Edna Ryan and Sylvia Winters

N390/13 - Women's Electoral Lobby submission to Australian Industrial Relations Commission, 1993

N390/63 – Pamphlet ‘Pay equity and over award payments in the metal industry’, 1992

N390/85 - Report 'ACTU working women's charter implementation manual no. 2: equal pay', February 1985

N390/93 - Newsletter ‘Equal Pay Unit Newsletter No. 5’, April 1993

N390/108 - National Pay Equity Coalition Submission to the 1988 National Wage Case, August 1988

N390/127 - Department of Industrial Relations publications, 1991-1993

N390/145 - National Pay Equity Coalition – assorted papers, c. 1987-1988

N390/148 - Job evaluation systems and pay equity - papers by Dr Clare Burton, 1987-1991

N390/153 – Equal pay – assorted papers, 1989-1992

N390/183 - Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission decisions regarding basic wages and equal pay, no date

Tom and Mary Wright

Z267/Box 2 – Published pamphlets – equal pay, c. 1930s-1960s

Z267/Box 6 – Published pamphlets – inequality in pay, 1965

Z267/Box 9 – Personal files – equal pay, 1962-1972

Z267/Box 17 – Equal pay leaflets, 1962-1965

Z267/Box 17 – Equal pay papers – Women’s Employment Board, Women’s wage rates, Application re Female Minimum Wage Case, 1945

Z267/Box 18 – Pamphlet – Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union – Women and Wages in the War Years 1940-1945, 1982

Z267/Box 25 – Women’s movement leaflets and pamphlets (including equal pay), 1943-1976

P120/562 – National Equal Pay Week, Metal Trades Federation NSW Branch, Sydney, 1966

P120/976 – Richard Hughes Pty Ltd strike re rates of pay awarded by Women’s Employment Board,1944 (Including some equal pay material to 1969), 1943-1969

P120/977 – Exercise book containing amounts pf back pay owed to women workers at Richard Hughes Pty Ltd, 1942-1944