Women will rise! Recalling the working women’s charter – Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell (Eds)
Women will rise! Recalling the working women’s charter – Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell (Eds)
Women will rise! Recalling the working women’s charter – Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell (Eds)

Women will rise! Recalling the working women’s charter – Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell (Eds)

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Women will rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter includes chapters by women who promoted the Charter, and others looking at what has been achieved since — and what remains to be done.

In the late 1970s, as the women’s movement was fracturing, trade union women put forward a new agenda to bring feminists and women workers together. The one-page, 16-clause Working Women’s Charter covered …

★ the right to work

★ equal pay

★ an end to discrimination at work

★ better conditions, family leave, flexible work arrangements

★ free, quality childcare

★ reproductive rights

… and more. Challenged by patriarchal union traditions, the women worked hard to win union support for their demands.

Steel Roberts Aotearoa, 2022. Paperback, 238 pages with notes and index.

Condition: new paperback.