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

Bibliography

Bibliography

PRIMARY SOURCES

1 UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

(a) Manuscript records including newspaper cuttings.

H. Roth, 'Scrapbook on Women', in possession of H. Roth, University of Auckland.

M. Cohen, 'Scrapbook on Women's Rights including New Zealand Women's Suffrage', Alexander Turnbull Library.

M. Seaton MSS, Unsorted papers, Auckland Institute and Museum.

(b) Official and Government papers.

Minutes of NCW Conferences, 1945 to 1948, Wellington.

Minutes of NCW Conferences, 1948 to 1966, Wellington.

Minutes of Pan Pacific Women's Association, Christchurch 1952 (in M. Seaton MSS).

Nash Papers, NA: 450 General policies relating to women. 1108 Cabinet Minutes, October 1959.

Correspondence between:
  • Nash and the PSA.
  • Nash and the PSC.
  • Regarding the introduction and implementation of equal pay.
Reports of:
  • Deputations of the PSA to Nash.
  • Interviews of Nash with the PSA and the PSC.
  • Equal Pay Implementation Committee, 1959 and 1960.
  • Working Party Report on Equal Pay, April 1958.
N1171 Correspondence between:
  • Nash and the Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity.
2059 Correspondence between:
  • Nash and the PSC (of a confidential nature).

PSA files, Auckland.

Public Service Women, 1953 to 1971. (File)

G. T. Bolt, Address to Equal Pay Conference 1955.

National Committee Meetings on Equal Pay, 1955 to 1960.

PSA Circulars to Members of Executive Committee, 1950 to 1980.

Public Service Women, 1953 to 1963. (File)

Reports of the Women's Sub-Committee on Equal Pay.

PSA files Wellington.

Correspondence and Data Relating to Women in the PSA, Wellington. Women Public Servants, May 1945 to November 1951. (File)

Annual Reports of PSA Women's Committee.

Case for Equal Pay for Equal Work presented on behalf of the PSA to the Consultative Committee, 4 April 1945.

Report of the Public Service Consultative Committee on Salaries, 1945 to 1946.

Equal Pay, General, 1955 to 1960. (File)

Anonymous. Legal Action to Obtain Equal Pay and Equal Opportunity for Women.

Correspondence between:

J. Marshall and J. Turnbull.

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J. Turnbull and Solicitors, 1956.

Dr W. B. Sutch, 'Economic Effects of Equal Pay in New Zealand'. Address to 1955 PSA Conference on Equal Pay.

Minutes of PSA Annual Conferences, 1955 to 1960.

Minutes of the Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity, 1957 to 1960.

Reports on:
  • Deputations to the Prime Minister.
  • Meetings with Executive Officers.
  • Women's Meeting with Holland, 1956.

PSA. EOS Circulars (confidential file).

PSA. Minutes of Executive Meetings (confidential file).

2 PAMPHLETS

(a) Those relating directly to equal pay.

Equal Pay and Opportunity, PSA Wellington, 1955.

Equal Pay for Women, PSA Circular 106, Wellington, 1954.

Equal Pay and the Parker Case, Wellington.

The Association and Equal Pay, Wellington, 1957.

Your Rights of Appeal and How to Exercise Them, Wellington, 1956.

(b) Conference Minutes of Organisations which supported equal pay.

Minutes of the New Zealand FOL Annual Conferences, 1945 to 1950.

Minutes of the New Zealand Labour Party Annual Conferences, 1929 to 1945.

3 PERIODICALS

Journal of Public Administration, 1944 to 1960.

New Zealand Women in Council, 1952 to 1961.

Public Service Journal, 1943 to 1960.

Woman Today, 1937 to 1939.

4 NEWSPAPERS

(a) The following newspapers were examined in some detail from 1945 to 1960.

Dominion.

Evening Post.

Otago Daily Times.

(b) Cuttings from the following newspapers were found in PSA files and H. Roth's 'Scrapbook on Women'.

Auckland Star.

Dominion.

Evening Post.

Otago Daily Times.

Southern Cross.

5 OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, 1950 to 1960.

Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1955 to 1960.

New Zealand Official Year Books, 1941 to 1962.

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6 PERSONS INTERVIEWED — 1971 (in alphabetical order)

Mary Boyd, former member of the Research Committee on the Case for Equal Pay, 1945.

Jim Ferguson, former President of the PSA.

Mrs B. Holt, former President of the NCW.

Cath Kelly (née Eichelbaum), former member of the PSA Women's Committee and active campaigner for equal pay.

Dan Long, former President and then General Secretary of the PSA.

Margaret Long (née Brand), former member of PSA Executive and active campaigner for equal pay.

Dr Bill Sutch, former member of the Department of Industries and Commerce and influential supporter of PSA activity for equal pay.

Jack Turnbull, former General Secretary of the PSA.

7 PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION ORAL ARCHIVE

Persons interviewed by Alison Lash, 1985 (in alphabetical order):
  • Mary Boyd
  • Maureen Evans
  • Margaret Long
  • Joyce McBeath
  • Margot Rodden
Persons interviewed by Cath Kelly, 1986 (in alphabetical order):
  • Jim Ferguson (in dicussion with Margaret Long)
  • Beverley Hurrelle
  • Barry Tucker

Cath Kelly interviewed by Margaret Corner, 1986

Discussion tape with Mary Boyd, Rona Bailey, Maire Dwyer, Margaret Corner, March 1987.

SECONDARY SOURCES

1 UNPUBLISHED THESES

Fletcher, D., 'Women in the New Zealand Labour Force', Wellington, 1950.

Hutchison, J., 'Bibliography of Published Books and Articles and University Theses about Women in Public Life in New Zealand', 1955.

Kane, M. A. (now Corner), 'History of Equal Pay in New Zealand, 1890–1960. A Study of Changing Social Attitudes towards the New Zealand Woman and the Associated Part Played by the PSA in the Acquisition of Equal Pay', 1972.

Smith, L. L., 'The Problem of Abortion in New Zealand in the Nineteen-Thirties, with emphasis on the 1936 Committee of Inquiry Report', Long Essay, 1972.

2 PUBLISHED BOOKS

(a) Books relating to New Zealand women, the family and feminism in general.

Downer, I. H. Seventy-Five Years of Free Kindergartens in New Zealand, Rotorua, 1971.

Ebbett, Eve. When the Boys Were Away, Wellington, 1984.

Friedan, B. The Feminine Mystique, Chicago, 1963.

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Grimes, A. P. The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage, New York, 1967.

Grimshaw, P. A. Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, Auckland, 1972.

Guy, C. K. Women on the Home Front: An S.O.S. from Mothers, Wellington, 1943.

Houston, S. (ed.) Marriage and the Family in New Zealand, Wellington, 1970.

Kraditor, A. S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement 1890–1920, New York, 1965.

—– (ed.) Up from the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism, Chicago, 1968.

Mill, J. S. On the Subjection of Women, London, 1929.

O'Neill, W. L. The Woman Movement: Feminism in the United States and England, New York and London, 1969.

Paul, J. T. Our Majority, Dunedin, 1910.

Simpson, H. M. The Women of New Zealand, Wellington, 1940.

Sinclair, A. The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman, New York, 1966.

Sutch, W. B. Women With A Cause, Wellington, 1973.

(b) General books.

Baker, J. V. T. War Economy, Wellington, 1956.

Bassett, M. The Depression of the Thirties, Auckland, 1971.

Chapman, R. and Sinclair, K. (eds) Studies of a Small Democracy: Essays in Honour of Willis Airey, Hamilton, 1963.

Condliffe, J. B. New Zealand in the Making, London, 1930.

Forster, J. (ed.) Social Process in New Zealand, Auckland, 1969.

Hare, A. E. C. Industrial Relations in New Zealand, Wellington, 1946.

Lipson, L. The Politics of Equality, Chicago, 1948.

Lusk, H. H. Social Welfare in New Zealand, London, 1913.

Miller, J. Early Victorian New Zealand, Great Britain, 1958.

Rathbone, E. The Case for Family Allowances, London.

Sinclair, K. History of New Zealand, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1959.

Sutch, W. B. The Quest for Security in New Zealand, Wellington, 1966.

—– The Responsible Society in New Zealand, Christchurch, 1971.

—– Poverty and Progress in New Zealand, Wellington, 1941.

Taylor, N. M. The New Zealand People at War. The Home Front, Wellington, 1986.

3 ARTICLES

PSA Golden Jubilee Supplement to Public Service Journal, Wellington, 1963.

Seminar: Equal Pay for Equal Work, University of Victoria, Wellington, 1970.

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