{"id":1810,"date":"2016-08-23T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2016-08-19T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:11:14","slug":"upcoming-event-50-years-on-women-and-work-celebrating-the-lifting-of-the-marriage-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/08\/23\/upcoming-event-50-years-on-women-and-work-celebrating-the-lifting-of-the-marriage-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Event &#8211; &#8220;50 Years on, Women and Work: Celebrating the lifting of the marriage bar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/women-in-work.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1811 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/women-in-work-300x85.png\" alt=\"women in work\" width=\"367\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This year marks the 50th anniversary of Australia lifting the Marriage Bar\u00a0to allow married women to work in the Commonwealth Public Service.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Queensland, the bar on married women being employed in public sector took a further three years, and even then, married women still required departmental approval to work after marriage until 1973.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To celebrate this milestone, a free event will be held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogh.qut.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Old Government House<\/strong><\/a> on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tuesday 17th November 2016 at 10am<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speakers include Dr. Linda Colley from the Public Service Commission and PhD candidates Melinda Laundon and Penny Williams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Come along to discuss the many changes that have and have not occurred and acknowledge\u00a0the women who continue to push the boundaries for gender equity in our society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please RSVP by Monday 26th September 2016 to\u00a0m.crawford@qut.edu.au<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary of Australia lifting the Marriage Bar\u00a0to allow married women to work in the Commonwealth Public Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}