Australian Education Union

2009 Federal Women's Conference - Workshop 1
Women's Wages
(Pat Ranald)

This workshop will broadly deal with notions of:

Wage freezes and industrial strategies

Professional Pay for teachers

International affects of the GFC in schools such as school budget cuts in New York etc

Pat Ranald from the ACTU Organising Education and Campaign Centre has been invited to assist with this workshop by providing a broad perspective of how the financial climate is impacting women's employment, hours and pay. The workshop will also consider the national and international perspective regarding the impact of the GFC on public education.

Women's Officers Barb Jennings and Roz Madsen will assist in the running of this workshop.

“The Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Education,” Education International (EI)

“She Works Hard for the Money – Australian Women and the Gender Divide,” NATSEM for AMP

Richardson, D., (2009), “The impact of the recession on women, ” The Australian Institute Paper No.3

“Time Warp Again – despite decades of change the continuing pay gap between women and men suggests the equality battles of bygone eras still have a way to go” About the House, December 2008

“Gender pay gap set to widen following freeze on wages for the low-paid” ACTU Media Release, 13 July 2009

“Sex Discrimination Commissioner Urges Government to Make Women's Financial Security in Retirement a National Priority,” 27 February 2009 [hard copy only]

ACTU GFC summit (various papers)

Sharan Burrow, “Pathways to recovery: securing the jobs and incomes of working Australians,” address to the ACTU Jobs Summit, Sydney NSW, 20 July 2009

“GFC and Women – powerpoint presentation,” Pat Ranald, ACTU Organising Centre [late paper, hard copy only]

This page last updated 29 April 2010

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