ATS3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Australian Democrats, Julia Gillard, Geraldine Ferraro
2 Nov 2018
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Liberal democracies emerged in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and were democracies of men with women excluded as political citizens. When rst wave feminism (the suffrage movement) emerged in the late 19th century its principal measure of equality was voting rights. Given the right to vote and stand for the. Barriers to women standing for parliament included that the suffragists diverted their attention to other issues, and the un-receptiveness of the established political parties. Up until world war ii, only eleven women had been elected to australian legislatures. In both countries, "widow"s succession" was a common way in which women rst entered parliament. It was not until the end of the 1980s that women really begin to gather momentum until the accounted for 5 per cent of members of the. The major left-of-centre parties (labor and democratic) have been most proactive in encouraging increased female representation.
