Women’s movement in Australia

So was the women’s liberation movement worth the time and energy?Without the movement, women’s rights would be even fewer.It was socialists who were central to the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s.Again, the Women’s Liberation Movement arose from the contradictions highlighted by the boom.Today, women are faced with what seems to be a contradiction.Yet women remain concentrated in the low paid, often part time jobs with few career prospects.In 1999, women were 52% of all staff, 35% of academic staff and 62% of general staff.Yet women were over-represented in the lower classifications in both the academic and general areas.In 1961 women were only 25% of the workforce.In 1966 the participation rate in the paid workforce by women was 36% compared with 84% of men.