http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/megan-clement-couzner/ Megan Clement-Couzner is a doctoral student at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She writes about gender, and social and economic change. She is a lifelong feminist and a member of F, the Sydney feminist collective. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wage-justice-for-the-people-holding-up-the-community/ The federal Labor government announced on Wednesday of last week that it would “meet it’s responsibilities” to fund equal pay for community workers. This announcement represents one more step toward wage justice for people working in the sector, whose equal remuneration case has been running for over a year. It came after intensive lobbying efforts by those same workers and union members, who were emailing, calling and dancing for equal pay in the weeks leading up to this most recent commitment. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Megan Clement-Couzner) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wage-justice-for-the-people-holding-up-the-community/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wage-justice-for-the-people-holding-up-the-community/#item6260 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:35:31 +0000 Megan Clement-Couzner | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-equal-pay-case-will-affect-all-our-interests/ It is not fashionable for a member of Gen Y like myself to care about equal pay for women. So the Australian Services Union equal remuneration case currently before Fair Work Australia should perhaps hold no great interest for me. Equal pay was won in 1969 and equal pay for work of equal value in 1972, long before I was born. I am apparently of the post-feminist era, and most of my friends have been to university, perhaps even more of the women than the men. At 26, I have watched the boys I went to school with complete engineering and IT degrees and the girls finish teaching, social work or arts. Perhaps this observation should not bother me. I do not doubt that my friends are excellent at their chosen professions. The problem I have with this scenario is the gap in their respective salaries. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Megan Clement-Couzner) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-equal-pay-case-will-affect-all-our-interests/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-equal-pay-case-will-affect-all-our-interests/#item5036 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:40:06 +0000 Megan Clement-Couzner | Author bios | The Punch