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Job for the boys: top businessmen go in to bat for women's rights
Apr 28, 2010: AUSTRALIA'S top businessmen are vowing to fight for women's rights, forming a powerful new advisory group to improve pay and conditions for female workers.  

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Women's pay worse than in 1985
Mar 2, 2010: WOMEN'S lack of progress towards equal pay is to be placed on the federal election agenda, with unions set to conduct a public and political campaign calling for government intervention.  

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Women workers are losing out: new global report on gender gap is a wake up call for Australian employers
Oct 30, 2009: Australian employers must do more to encourage women's participation in the workforce and close the gender pay gap, following a major international report showing Australia is slipping further down world rankings on some critical indicators, say unions.



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Rudd government must raise women's pay - alliance
Aug 31, 2009: A NEW alliance has called on the Federal Government to support equal pay for women that it says never materialised from the 1970s liberation movement.



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New Research Shows Large Businesses More Female Friendly
Aug 20, 2009: Big businesses in Australia are making significant inroads in making their organisations more female and family friendly, according an Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency's (EOWA) survey released today.



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Pay rises skipping female workers
Aug 14, 2009: WOMEN are the hidden victims of the downturn, with female earnings falling to their lowest point relative to men's in two decades, even as they outshine men in getting jobs.




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