THE POSITION OF WOMEN

TIME LINE OF THE POSITION OF WOMEN

• 1788- 192 female convicts transported to Australia for petty crime
• 1840- Deserted Women’s and Children’s Act (NSW) provides maintenance in the case of desertion.
• 1855- first women to graduate from Sydney UNI
• 1894- south Australian women get to vote.
• 1903- Vida Goldstein was one of the first four women to stand in parliament
• 1907- women get 54% of male wage.
• 1912- women doctors allowed to practice at Sydney hospital
• 1950- women wage set to 75% of a males
• 1984- sex discrimination act passed by federal parliament.

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• This picture shows how men thought they were superior to women in the past. It makes it seem like the women are only good for pleasing males and cooking.
• Author: van heusen
• Place and time: time created is not shown and it's probably located in a. Household
• Prior knowledge: we know that men were considered better them women in the time.
• Audience: male children
• Reason: to show people how superior males are to females.
• The main idea: to show people how superior makes are to females.
• Significance: this art piece tried to show kids how they should think about women right. Bloody propaganda.

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• Author: mrs moffit
• Place and time: 192 collins street. 1903 April 8th.
• Prior knowledge: women have started getting some sort of respect at this point but a lot of people still think of them as inferior.
• Audience: people everywhere
• Reason: to show women that if she can protest and stand on her own two feet then they can too.
• The main idea: to make an influence
• Significance: she was one of the women that took a step forward with everyone else on her back. She really gave women some help with their rights.

FACTS

• 1) Women did not get to vote on the same terms as males in 1918 Many people assume that, as a direct result of women’s war work during the First World War, they were given the vote on equal terms to men. However, they were not.
• 2) Suffragettes were accused of being ‘unladylike’ and ‘unnatural’. Suffragettes fell of the ‘norm’ and engaged in ‘unladylike’ and public activities.
• 3) not all suffragists were women. People think that only women protested but there were men protesting for women rights too.
• 4) protesters were force fed to keep them from dying. Women and men who were going on a hunger strike would be force fed by the government. The way they fed the people wasn't pretty either. They took a long tube and pushed it down the throat of the protesters. Liquid food would be thrown into their systems in a very gross way.
• 5) women voting. Ever since the 18th century women have fought for the right to vote and in the year 1920 the American government passed the law for women to vote.
• 6)There was more funding for the Suffragettes than for the Labour Party. After the WSPU split from the NUWSS in 1903, the WSPU quickly became better-funded than the early Labour Party.
• What was it like for women in the workplace between 1850-1913? women gained more rights during the 19th century. In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the USA to gain a medical degree. In Britain the first woman to become a dentist was Lilian Lindsay in 1895. The first woman to qualify as an architect in Britain was Ethel Charles in 1898. At this point of time women were started getting the right to work and vote as they wanted but things weren't easy for them. Even if women got the same job as a man, they would still be paid far less. Not because they worked less hours but because of the fact that they were women. On top of that fact, women got disrespected at the workplace by men who told them to ' go make a sandwich' or ' get back in the kitchen', and so on.
• How did people respond to circumstances that they thought was unjust? Between the 1960-1970s women started to protest and revolt in order to obtain their rights. This large scale protest is now known as 'the feminist movement'
• What events, people and circumstances shaped the Australian nation?
• July 15th 1817 Australia's first bank
• 1854 gold rush settlement
• November 11th 1880 Ned Kelly died
• Jan 1st 1889 women were given the right to vote.