Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 333: Fifty years ago (found poetry)



FIFTY YEARS AGO

working women
gender pay gap
stuck
16 per cent

a long way to go

November 18
Holt government decreed
legal
for married women to work

public service.

quite recently
women would get the sack
we clung
female public servant
no longer
capable
working women
marched to the door.

marriage bar

Harold Holt
repealed
50 years ago

daughters
work every day
16 per cent less
than
male 


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