status n roles of women

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The status and roles of woman have changed significantly and notably in the post war period. Woman’s position in society has been altered positively. The activities and occupation of women has also changed dramatically. The changes how ever have occurred over a number of decades. The first decade in which we saw changes in the role and status of woman was in the 1950’s. In this decade the stereotype of women was seen as the “house wife,” who would stay home cleaning the house, and preparing dinner for her husband to come home. Bread Winner” is what the men were stereotyped to be, they worked all day to support their family, and would come home to a clean house and a well prepared dinner. The first government in Australia had introduced equal pay for equal work in NSW in 1958. The following year, 1959, women were finally granted equal pay, the same as men who performed similar jobs as they did, also two women’s organisations formed to support equal pay. The following decade of 1960’s is also where we sore a major change in the status and roles of woman in society. In 1961 they introduced the contraceptive pill. This helped woman have a right on how they wanted to control their fertility life, they finally gained responsibility for something a man couldn’t impact on. The 1960’s was known as the era characterised as questioning of the political, economic and also social statuses. This was a decade of protest and the demands for priorities. Woman of the 60’s embarked on a campaign to have their rights recognised; this became the women’s liberation movement. In 1969 the idea of women receiving the same pay of men phased out over three years, and a requirement of women also receiving the same wage rate that men had for the same work was also put forth; this was known as the federal Equal Pay Case of 1969. Women were finally standing up for what they thought were right
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