The Women's Liberation Movement
The Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) has shaped the changing rights and freedom of women in Australia since the late 1960’s. The Movement aimed to overturn the idea that women were inferior to men and to make society see women as people who could control their own lives. The Women’s movement sought to bring about change for women in a society that called for long overdue change.
In Australia, the 1960s was an era characterised by questioning of the political, economic, and social status quo. It was a decade of protest and many people demanded changes to society’s organisation and priorities. Women became more aware of the different ways in which society limited their freedom and ignored their rights. They are denied basic rights, trapped in the home for life, and discriminated against in the workplace. They started getting together in small groups and discussed ways of re-educating and recognizing women’s rights and put and end to the barriers of segregation and discrimination based on sex. The peak of this movement occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Women's Liberation Movement was recognized as an organized effort to gain equality of women. The women's liberation movement grew very rapidly spreading across the globe in a short space of time.
An aim in which women came up with in hope to achieve was to overturn the idea that women were inferior to men. Women had been convinced that they were only important for reproducing and had no purpose in life. An example of how this was shown in society was through education. Women were denied of a tertiary education because society implied that women become mothers once they left school. In the late 1940s and 1950s, girls’ education involved the teachings of traditional female skills like sewing and cooking. Women sought to improve the education at schools particularly by changing what was being taught. Women also aspired to encourage girls to aim higher in their career choices by allowing women to women to
In Australia, the 1960s was an era characterised by questioning of the political, economic, and social status quo. It was a decade of protest and many people demanded changes to society’s organisation and priorities. Women became more aware of the different ways in which society limited their freedom and ignored their rights. They are denied basic rights, trapped in the home for life, and discriminated against in the workplace. They started getting together in small groups and discussed ways of re-educating and recognizing women’s rights and put and end to the barriers of segregation and discrimination based on sex. The peak of this movement occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Women's Liberation Movement was recognized as an organized effort to gain equality of women. The women's liberation movement grew very rapidly spreading across the globe in a short space of time.
An aim in which women came up with in hope to achieve was to overturn the idea that women were inferior to men. Women had been convinced that they were only important for reproducing and had no purpose in life. An example of how this was shown in society was through education. Women were denied of a tertiary education because society implied that women become mothers once they left school. In the late 1940s and 1950s, girls’ education involved the teachings of traditional female skills like sewing and cooking. Women sought to improve the education at schools particularly by changing what was being taught. Women also aspired to encourage girls to aim higher in their career choices by allowing women to women to