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Those inspirational women were only aged between 18 and 28 and kept the rally going for two hours. They addressed several hundred people in Sydney and surrounding areas about women workers’ rights.



Edna Ryan, one of the five women who organised the first rally in Australia, wrote in the Worker’s Weekly in 1927 “Women, if you want equality, don’t wait for men to win it for you”.



This year marks the 100^th anniversary of the first International Women’s Day and equal pay is still the burning issue for the women taking part in this event.



“We’re still talking equal pay 100 years on” said Anne Barber, one of the organisers of the rally in Sydney.



Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that full-time women workers still earn 83 % of full-time male co-workers’ earnings and women working part-time earn less than two-thirds of men’s.



“There is still a persistent gap, partly because the jobs women do are still undervalued” said Fran Hayes, the National Pay Equity Coalition’s spokeswoman.



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