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However, the primary roles for Australian women during the war was through nursing. [11] No other official military roles were available to Australian women when World War I broke out. [2] [12] Nearly three decades earlier Australian universities started lifting their bans on women enrolling in medicine.
Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
The first was the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed by Henrietta Dugdale in 1884. The organisations involved in the suffrage movement varied across the colonies. A national body, the Australian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed in 1889, whose aims were to educate women and men about a woman's right to vote and stand for parliament.
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Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of women's rights throughout recorded history , personal achievements over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and the effect ...
Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. / ˈ v aɪ d ə ˈ ɡ oʊ l d s t aɪ n /) (13 April 1869 – 15 August 1949) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer. [1] [2] She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union also established branches in most Australian colonies in the 1880s, promoting votes for women and a range of social causes. [206] Female suffrage, and the right to stand for office, was first won in South Australia in 1895. [207] Women won the vote in Western Australia in 1899, with racial restrictions.
The history of women's rights in Australia is a contradictory one: while Australia led the world in women's suffrage rights in the 19th century, it has been very slow in recognizing women's professional rights – it was not until 1966 that its marriage bar was removed. [140]