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Australia's leading feminist activist Anne Summers has issued a call to arms for women everywhere and she says women need to do more than just call themselves feminists.
"It is no longer enough for us just to list our grievances and to call for redress. We need to be very specific about what we want and we have to make it happen.
Anne Summers nailed a manifesto to the door of the Australian Education Union in Victoria on Tuesday night, the eve of International Women's Day. Photo: Marco Del Grande
"We have to do it now."
Summers, Fairfax columnist and the author of Damned Whores and God's Police and The Misogyny Factor, nailed her Women's Manifesto to the door of the Australian Education Union in Victoria on Tuesday night, the eve of International Women's Day.
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She has a blueprint for equality: a short-term action plan and long-term goals. And she wants every Australian women's group, every union, everyone who has ever expressed any interest in equality to demand change within five years.
"By 2022 we intend to have the following four significant reforms," she said:
Legislated equal pay for all women in all jobs
Decriminalisation of abortion in New South Wales and Queensland
Specialist domestic violence courts in every state of Australia
Gender quotas dictating women make up 50 per cent of all parliamentarians, all cabinets and other ministries and directors of all public company and government boards.
In an impassioned call to action, she said equality delayed is equality denied.
"We need to fight. We have to have a watertight plan, with specific goals, and a timeline. And we need to do it together. A fragmented movement will not win."
Summers said she decided in November last year to write the manifesto after a string of books by women around how angry they were. Anger is good, but action is better.
"Now we need a concrete blueprint for how we are going to change," she said.
"We have five years to make this happen. Starting today."
"I am hoping that people will want to come together and get involved, drawing up specific solutions for how we can make change."
There are four basic principles – or pillars – of women's equality, said Summers on Tuesday, and she is calling on all Australians to work with her on this project.
She believes to all goals of equality can fit into the neat architecture of these pillars: financial self-sufficiency; reproductive freedom; freedom from violence; and the right of women to participate fully and equally in all areas of public life.
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