Papers [manuscript]. 1942-1971.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1942-1971.

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A collection of letters, newspaper cuttings, and typescript articles on women's status, including letters from Jessie Street and Barbara Jones. Subjects include: women and careers, working mothers, equal pay, women in politics, social welfare, women graduates, and Apprenticeship Enquiry 1965-1966.

15 cm. (6 folders).

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Street, Jessie M. G., Lady, 1889-1970

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Feminist and social activist. Founder, NSW Social Hygiene Association (1915), concerned with informing women about birth control and sex education. Co-founder (1928) and President of the United Associations of Women which lobbied governments on equal pay and other women's issues. Accompanied H.V. Evatt to the United Nations founding conference in San Franscisco (1945) where she successfully lobbied for a charter of women's rights. Unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives seat of W...

Jones, Barbara Stewart

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Secretary, fundraiser. From the description of Oral history interview with Barbara Jones, 1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122598207 Barbara Jones was a graduate student at the University of Delaware, completing her master's degree in 1964. She wrote her M.A. thesis on Deborah Logan. Jones was a member of the guiding staff of Winterthur Museum. Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839) was the daughter of Charles and Ma...

Newson, Vivienne.

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Member of sometime newsletter editor United Association of Women. Possible member of Australian Federation of University Women. Member of Jessie Street's election committee for 1943 elections. Possibly wrote under pseudonym of M. L. Christian. (Possibly more information about her in U.A.W. Records, Mitchell Library). From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1942-1971. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225754992 ...