Women’s political activism in the Australian Labor Party in the Early 1900s in Western Australia Part 2 Robin Joyce This paper is a section of an article published in Marian Simms , Australian Women and the Political System ,…
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LABOR WOMEN: POLITICAL HOUSEKEEPERS OR POLITICIANS?
Robin Joyce This is a part of a paper published in Marian Simms , Australian Women and the Political System , Longman Cheshire, 1984. Part 1 Typical travel conditions experienced by women who organised country Labor meetings Labor Women: Political Housekeepers…
Women’s Organisation in Western Australia in the 1890s
Robin Joyce Part 1 We are enthroned in the hearts of men; that is why men use us and pay us half the wages, but we don’t want to be enthroned in men’s hearts under these conditions. …
Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?
Robin Joyce Part 2 Leaders’ roles and activities are usually, although not always, easy to follow. Jean Beadle, as described in Part 1, was one woman whose career in the labour movement was well known. However, other women involved…
Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?
Robin Joyce Part 1 Myths which limit women’s role and the perception of that role are abundant. The political arena is no exception and the negative images significantly undermine women’s perception of their heritage as legitimate actors in the…
Western Australian Labor Woman, Jean Beadle promotes her options for dealing with venereal disease 1915
A Letter to the Editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner 1915[1] Jean Beadle [2] ‘Notwithstanding the fact that the First Labor Women’s Conference, held in 1912, carried a resolution favouring notification and segregation of persons suffering from venereal disease, I…