Sel Dowd
Despite decades of social gains, women's work remains generally low paid and undervalued, and they perform unpaid domestic labour that annually amounts to half of Australia's GDP. Women are now a permanent part of the waged workforce and the union movement, but sexist attitudes and practices are rampant in and out of the workplace. This session will compare the situation of women 50 years ago and today to explain how, on a whole range of measures, the situation for working class women (and men) is overall not much better, and discuss why we need a radical movement for women's rights that is connected to the struggle for workers' rights and the fight to overthrow capitalism.