Barbara Cross points out that she wanted to see positive changes for women in the ALP but the branches were given little encouragement and women were still looked upon as tea ladies. Manfred Cross states that in those days, it was a man's world.
Liz Cunningham discusses women in politics. She describes how she feels she had not had difficulties due to her gender but acknowledges that this may be different for women party politicians.
Mary Kelly discusses women's issues and women in leadership roles in the Queensland Teachers Union today, and the improvements in the field since the 1980s.
Diane Zetlin discusses the role of women in unions, and particularly her own experience of discrimination and sexism as a woman in leadership in the NTEU.
Sallyanne Atkinson reflects on the culture of the BCC when she was first elected and the challenges of being a woman in a male dominated environment. She states that she got greater press coverage and people were polite to women. She also describes the view that there were male and female policy areas.
Sallyanne Atkinson discusses her time as a journalist, interrupting her career to start a family. She states that she stopped being a full-time journalist in 1964 but she has continued to write individual pieces.
Diane Fingleton comments on the lack of formal training that existed during her time of transition from advocate to magistrate. She explains the resistance she faced in the courts system because she had not risen to her position through the clerks system, and also due to her gender.
Robin Sullivan discusses becoming the first woman Deputy Director General of Education in 1997 in the context of contemporary social justice reforms, and her interest in expanding these reforms into curriculum development. She comments on the discrimination she faced in taking on the role, and talks about changing approaches to numeracy and literacy, and the notion of a national curriculum.
Robin Sullivan discusses her early career in the Education Department before taking up a range of positions in the public service. She discusses being the first married woman school principal in Queensland, and the discrimination she faced in this and her later role as a school/TAFE inspector.
Molly Robson discusses equality for women with emphasis on the importance of continuing to push for reforms and the risk that younger women are unaware of existing inequalities.
