Women are a force change in Australian society. The pride of
place siren to men as almost the sole shapers of Australian history is
being challenged. Today husbands more often not share
household chores and more 62.
______. men are finding women alongside them in the workplace. It may
be some time before there is a woman Prime Minister of Australia, but the
63. ______. need for women at the top -- and their fight
to be there -- is now widely recognized. The growing role of
women in the Australian work force is both a cause or a consequence of
changing attitudes and lifestyles in Australian 64.
______. society. In offices, laboratories and factories, in
social and politics 65.
______. organizations, women are making their presence feel. There are few
66. ______. remaining legal barriers
against women in Australia in jobs, commercial contracts, politics and social
life. The barriers that exist mainly stem from traditional attitudes built
into society and is not easily changed by 67. ______. new
laws. Women have brought about the most significant change in
the Australian work force simply by entering it in thousands, and for
68. ______. seeking which before were assumed to
be suitable for women only. 69.
______. There are now women in Australia drive buses, trams, taxis, racing
cars 70. ______. and 50-tonne trucks. They are race-horse
jockeys. They are apprentice electricians and mechanics. They are air-traffic
controllers. They shear sheep and working as laborers. They are judges and
Members of 71.
______. Parliament.