Women, class and oppression

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Women in Australia today face a contradiction.In 1969 the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission granted equal pay.In 1972 it said women should receive 'equal pay for work of equal value', to stop employers classifying women's work differently from virtually identical work done by men.Yet the gap between women and men's full-time earnings is widening again.Full time women workers earn on average just over 80 per cent of men's wages and if all workers are compared, the figure drops to 67 per cent. 1 Sex discrimination legislation and Equal Employment Opportunity schemes abound, yet women's bodies are, if anything, more openly used as sex objects in popular culture and advertising than they were fifty years ago.Women are concentrated on the lower rungs of career structures.Griffith University in 1999 was typical.Women made up 62 per cent of general staff and 35 per cent of academic staff.But they were mainly employed at the lower levels of career structures.Women were 86 per

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