Women and Whitlam – Revisiting the revolution Arrow Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Women and WhitlamRevisiting the Revolution\nAuthor(s): Michelle Arrow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: NewSouth Publishing, Australia\nImprint: NewSouth Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781742237855, 978-1742237855\nSynopsis\nThe Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.\n\nThe Whitlam government of [tel] appointed a women's advisor to national government a world first and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for women, introduced the single mother's benefit and paid maternity leave in the public service, ensured cheap and accessible contraception, funded women's refuges and women's health centres, introduced accessible, no-fault divorce and the Family Court, and much more.\n\nWomen and Whitlam brings together three generations including Elizabeth Evatt, Eva Cox, Patricia Amphlett, Elizabeth Reid, Tanya Plibersek, Heidi Norman, Blair Williams and Ranuka Tandan to revisit the Whitlam revo.