Mandarins, Ministers and the Bar on Married Women  

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Sheridan, Tom ; Stretton, Pat

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 46 no. 1 (Mar. 2004), page 84-101.
Fulltext: 84.pdf (108.71KB)

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Until November 1966 clauses in the Public Service Act prevented married women from being permanent employees in the Commonwealth Public Service (or in State public services outside of NSW). Examination of National Archives records reveals that removal of the marriage bar was a much more complicated process than hither to generally realised. Study of the pursuit of its removal over an eight-year period through two Inter-departmental Committees, a Permanent Heads Committee, a Cabinet Committee and through three formal submissions to Cabinet itself casts an interesting light on the interface between the varying goals of centralised public sector management and the political criteria and ambitions of its political masters. In the period before second-wave feminism reached Australia organised labour had various axes to grind—often hidden, sometimes conflicting. At all times macroeconomic currents were at least as persuasive as social preconditioning.

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