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Women's rights

19th century Victoria was a tough place for a woman – it was a man's world in which women couldn't vote or practise medicine, and were paid less than men for doing the same job.

Times have changed, and in the 21st century, some areas of women's rights have come a long way. Learn how these changes came about – how Vida Goldstein fought for women's suffrage, how Zelda D'aprano battled for equal pay, and how Victoria's first women's hospital came about.


 
Women's symbol badge
The hospital buildings, Melbourne, Vic
'A Senatorial Sister' cartoon
Miles Franklin and Vida Goldstein
A.W.A.S. women at work in Australia
'In Chains on "Equal Pay"'
'The Female Eunuch 25 years on: legacy of a daring liberation'.


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