Equal pay protest, Melbourne Town Hall, 20 February 1969

The women’s liberation or feminist movement of the late 1960s/early 1970s differed from the ‘first wave’ feminists of the late nineteenth century, who had mainly campaigned for women's suffrage and enhanced roles for women's domestic and familial roles. The later feminist movement were determined to extend women's choices and rights, and who aimed to change women's social, economic and political roles. They demanded equality in employment, income and education, access to childcare and control over their own bodies through safe abortion and contraception.