No Easy Victory: Towards Equal Pay for Women in the Government Service 1890-1960

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2

1 N. M. Taylor, The New Zealand People at War, The Home Front, Wellington, 1986, pp. 1074–1075.

2 J. Forster, ed., Social Process in New Zealand. 1st ed., Auckland, 1969; M. Gilson, 'Women in Employment', p. 192.

3 Fifty Years of Service, p. 28. PSA Golden Jubilee Supplement to the Public Service Journal, December 1963.

4 J. V. T. Baker, War Economy, p. 436.

5 H. Roth, Remedy for Present Evils, Wellington, 1987, Chapter 7.

6 J. V. T. Baker, War Economy, p. 437.

7 Press, 15 September 1942, p. 4.

8 Public Service Journal, November 1944, p. 33, 'Equal Pay and Family Allowances.'

9 Public Service Journal, September 1943, p. 379.

10 M. Boyd, in discussion with R. Bailey, M. Dwyer and M. Corner, PSA Oral Archive, March 1987, Wellington.

11 Public Service Journal, June 1945, p. 270.

12 H. Roth, Remedy for Present Evils, Chapter 7.

13 R. Bailey, correspondence to M. Corner, 25 March 1987, PSA Equal Pay Archive, Wellington.

14 Public Service Journal, August 1944, p. 337.

15 'The Case for Equal Pay for Equal Work', presented on behalf of the Women of the NZ Public Service to the Consultative Committee, 4 April 1944, p. 15, PSA Equal Pay Archive, Wellington.

16 Report of the Public Service Consultative Committee on Salaries, 1945–46, p. 12, PSA Equal Pay Archive, Wellington.

17 M. Boyd, in discussion with R. Bailey, M. Dwyer and M. Corner, PSA Oral Archive, March 1987, Wellington.

18 Ibid.

19 Cit. D. Fletcher, 'Women in the New Zealand Labour Force', unpublished thesis, Table XXV, pp. 76–77. (See Appendix II.)

20 Public Service Journal, January 1946, p. 14.

21 D. Fletcher, 'Women in the New Zealand Labour Force', p. 163.

22 Ibid., p. 47.

23 Southern Cross, 5 July 1947, newspaper cutting in PSA Equal Pay Archive, 'Women Public Servants, 2 May 1945–27 November 1951.'

24 Evening Post, 10 September 1948, newspaper cutting in PSA Equal Pay Archive, Wellington, 'Women Public Servants, 2 May 1945–27 November 1951'.

25 Southern Cross, 16 February 1949, newspaper cutting in PSA Equal Pay Archive, 'Women Public Servants, 2 May 1945–27 November 1951'.

26 Cit. M. A. Kane, 'The History of Equal Pay in New Zealand 1890–1960', unpublished thesis, Auckland, December 1972.

27 NCW Conference Minutes, 19 April 1947, NCW Records, Wellington.

28 Ibid., 29 September 1948.