Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 333 Take 2: Fifty years ago



FIFTY YEARS AGO

November 18
Holt government decreed

legal
for married women to work

public service.
marriage bar

repealed
50 years ago

quite recently
women would get the sack
we clung

female public servant
no longer capable

working women
marched to the door.

their daughters
work every day

16 per cent less
than male

pay gap
stuck

a long way to go


2 comments:

  1. Yes, how interesting! I really enjoyed the arrangement of voices here, almost like it's sung in a round...

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  2. Thanks so much Lucy. I like your take on it a lot.

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