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Equal opportunities for women in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Title
Equal opportunities for women in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Publication
London : University of London, Australian Studies Centre, 1984.

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University of London. Australian Studies Centre.
Description
64 p.; 30 cm.
Summary
Conference papers on equal opportunity for women and woman workers in the UK and Australia - examines obstacles to equal employment opportunity and limits of UK employment policy; studies British women's occupational status as politicians, civil servants, and lawyers; discusses political party attitudes towards equal treatment and the role of national level and local level labour legislation in eliminating sex discrimination in Australia; comments on the UK Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975. References.
Series Statement
Occasional seminar paper ; no.3
Uniform Title
Occasional seminar paper ; no.3.
Subject
  • Women > Employment > Great Britain
  • Sex discrimination in employment > Great Britain
  • Women > Employment > Australia
  • Sex discrimination in employment > Australia
  • Equality of opportunity
Genre/Form
  • conference paper.
  • comment.
  • reference.
  • document de conférence.
  • commentaire.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • documento de conferencia.
  • comentario.
  • referencia.
Note
  • Cover title.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The limits of British equal opportunity policy, / Joni Lovenduski; Promoting women: equal opportunity, politics and federalism in Australia, / Marian Simms; Law, and the promotion of women in the United Kingdom, / Jennifer Corcoran.
ISBN
0902499378 (pbk) :
LCCN
gb^85038049^
OCLC
  • 12946850
  • SCSB-12679352
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Harvard Library