Searching for the word women in Senate within the 1970s…
The word women
- appears in 1.7% of speeches
- appears 4834 times in 1618 speeches
- was spoken on 559 sitting days by 110 different people
- appears in speeches on 920 different topics
Top speakers:
- MELZER, Jean (697 uses)
- RYAN, Susan (432 uses)
- COLEMAN, Ruth (400 uses)
- GUILFOYLE, Margaret (322 uses)
- HARRADINE, Brian (252 uses)
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Top days:
- 11 April 1978 (155 uses)
- 25 March 1976 (135 uses)
- 29 May 1979 (129 uses)
- 4 October 1977 (96 uses)
- 28 September 1978 (92 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (222 uses)
- QUESTION: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S YEAR (155 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT: Women’s Affairs- Defence Service Home Loans: Insurance (148 uses)
- FUNDING OF WOMEN’S REFUGES: Matter of Urgency (128 uses)
- SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1976: Second Reading (108 uses)
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Associated words:
- married women (201 appearances)
- international women (103 appearances)
- many women (102 appearances)
- working women (95 appearances)
- australian women (80 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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In respect of other inquiries I have made, I find that the only time when any of these women were on the floor is when they were being dragged out or lifted out of the Department qf Labour and National Service into the hallway where they could be arrested legally.
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The amendments mean that women are now recognised along with their husbands as contributing to that fund.
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How many women and how manymenare engaged as Managers of State or Overseas Branch Offices of Qantas Airways Limited and as Directors of Trans Australia Airlines or as Regional Directors of Trans- Australia Airlines.
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As I see it, there is no stated Government policy, in these documents or elsewhere, which says that that is the aim, but the deliberate pressure, both in the past and at present, on married women to enter the paid work force has helped to promote the trend.
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The thing that interested me about Mrs Edwards’s letter to me was that she enclosed a Press release in which she said that the sorts of issues covered in the submissions received from the community and matters raised by the members themselves included the question of increasing the mother’s allowance paid to women pensioners with dependent children and the possible extension of this benefit to all lone parents.