Definitions - 1st Test

• Inspirational: filling others with the urge to feel or doing something, paticularly something creative
• social justice: relates to equal rights for all regardless of personal traits such as gender, income, etc
• equality: relates to all things being equal and people recieving the same treatment despite their differences
• Equity: relates to fairness. Takes unfair circumstances and provides extra support
• suffrage: the right to vote
• Suffragette: A woman who campaigned for women's right to vote.
• expertise: the use of special knowledge or skill in a particular field
• advocate: a person who supports a cause
• advocacy: to actively plead for a cause
• bias/biased: favouring a certain group/thing/side
• diversity: including people from a range of different social and ethical backgrounds
• social action: doing something to help create change
• equality: everyone has equal rights, opportunities and access to resources
• Edith Cowan:

  ·       Helped found Children’s Protection Society, precursor of the Children’s Court.

  ·       Helped create the Western Australian National Council for Women, of which she was President for from 1931 to 1921.

  ·       Appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1920.

  In 1921 she became the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament