Australian Women and Equality

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In order to understand the issues of equality among Australian women, this paper first defines equality issues in general and then equality issues specific to women. The paper then examines how Australian women have struggled with issues of equality from the 19th century until today in all spheres of culture, including politics and literature.

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"Australia presently ranks 29th in the world in terms of female political representation, according to the Geneva based Inter-Parliamentary Union. Feminist critics have taken aim at both parties, saying that Labor is not on track in filling "appeasement" quotas, and that women in Mr. Howard's office were elected on a tide of anti-Labor sentiment. Women in Australian politics are fighting the 19th century stereotype of being "the fragile little thing...the drover's wife." Women politicians feel that what is written in literature reinforces the "fragile" stereotype. In some cases the inequality has an odd result: women politicians are placed on pedestals by their male colleagues."

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