In honor of
International Women’s Day, I will devote my last blog post of the quarter to
discussing the National Council of Women of Tasmania. In 1899, Countess of
Aberdeen founded the National Council of Women of Tasmania after Tasmania was
invited to join the International Council of Women Congress in London. The
organization is a non-part, non-sectarian group that encompasses all other
affiliated women’s groups in Tasmania. The National Council of Women of
Tasmania mostly functions to influence policies on a local, state, and federal
level and was originally founded to focus on activism for middle-class women. The
group has 20 different committees and a range of subgroups covering
professional, religious, and welfare/service areas. The organization’s main
goals include:
1. To provide a
strong network and a means for affiliated groups to support each other
2. To work
together on matters of mutual interest or concern, as well as links to the
wider community
3. To promote
the best interests of women and their families and people in general
4. To confer and
provide a two-way flow of information on issues related to the welfare of the
family, the state, and the Commonwealth
5. To work in
every way for the application of equity, social justice (the Golden Rule), and
improvements in quality of life in a sustainable environment, for everyone.
Jessica Tam
This is awesome, love that you found a way to incorporate women's day into the blog assignment. I wonder how women's equality compares between here and there.
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