Content

Teaching and Learning Activities

Resources for Students

• Gender discrimination in the workplace

3a: Pay and Gender Issues for Women Before 1970

• Students compare wages for men and women who performed similar occupations from the 1950s to today
• Students examine job advertisements for references to gender
• Students revise a job advertisement from the 1950s so that it makes no reference to gender.

Handouts

• Australian Weekly Wages and Occupations from the 1950s 
• Jobs Vacant

e Resources

• Careerone
• MyCareer
• seek.com

Other

• internet
• space for students to walk around and interact  

• Employment attitudes prior to 1970

3b: The Changing Role of Women in the Workforce

• Students create a photo story of images and key terms showing the changing role of women in the workforce from 1900 to 1970
• Students analyse images of women during World War II and produce a creative response. 

Handouts

• Typical Roles of Men and Women in Australia Before World War II (1939–1945)

e Resources 

• Picture Australia
• National Film and Sound Archive
• images – The Le@rning Federation digital content (See teacher notes for details regarding access)
  • A typing pool (1950), Education Services Australia Ltd and National Archives of Australia – R2407
  • A female apprentice in the metal trades (1967), Education Services Australia Ltd and National Archives of Australia – R2905
  • Munitions factory worker (1940), Education Services Australia Ltd and National Archives of Australia – R2601
  • Wartime engineering production (1940s), Education Services Australia Ltd and Museum of New Zealand – R2509
  • Women working in a munitions factory (1943), Education Services Australia Ltd and The History Trust of South Australia – R4563
  • Women electroplating army canteen bottles (1940s), Education Services Australia Ltd and The National Museum of New Zealand – R5124
• video clips – Australian Screen Online 
  • Clip 2: Equal pay paradox, Education Services Australia Ltd (3 min 6 sec) – R7339
  • Clip 3: A very efficient secretary, Education Services Australia Ltd (2 min 45 sec) – R7340
  • While there is still time, Part 1 of 11 (1943), Education Services Australia Ltd and National Film and Sound Archive – R6054

Other

• Microsoft Word

• Equal Pay movement
• Case studies
• Events in the Equal Pay campaign
• Equal Opportunity legislation 

3c: Notable Campaigners and Key Milestones

• Students build up biographical profiles on one of the notable women campaigners of the Equal Pay for Equal Work Movement. 
• Students create an interactive multimedia timeline highlighting the key milestones of the campaign. 

Handouts

• Muriel, the Lobbyist for Equal Pay
• Zelda, the Union Activist
• Deborah Lawrie, the Jet Pilot
• Key Milestones: Equal Pay Campaign

e Resources

• Museum Box

This site provides the tools for students to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie.

• Time Line Creator

Online timeline creator which allow the inclusion of graphics and multimedia elements 

• Victorian Trades Hall Council

for Muriel Heagney

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• The Latrobe Journal
• The Australian Women’s Register
• Australian Trade Union Archives

for Zelda D’Aprano

• Australian Biography
• Australian Biography Study Guide
• The Australian Women’s Register
• State Library of Victoria
• Women’s Web 

for Deborah Lawrie

• Victorian Human Rights Commission
• The Age newspaper article

• Events in the Equal Pay campaign

3d: Equal Pay for Women Matrix

• Students complete a matrix to analyse the cause and effect relationships of the Equal Pay for Equal Work campaign.

 Handout

• Equal Pay for Women Matrix