Owen, Mary

Also known as
Owen, Mary (1921-)
Field of activity
Women's Liberationist and Trade unionist
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35114660
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-474560

Biographies

Mary Owen was founding Coordinator of The Working Women's Centre Melbourne, 1975-1986, when it was absorbed into the Australian Council of Trade Unions. She was a staff member of AAESDA (Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors & Draughtsmen of Australia), 1965 -1975; a member of WEL from 1972; and a member of La Trobe University Council 1983-1990. She was appointed Deputy Chancellor of La Trobe University 1989. In 1986 the first Mary Owen Dinner was organised in Melbourne to celebrate Mary's retirement. Held annually, the event lasted twenty years. There was always a female keynote speaker and the audience, normally in the order of 600 women, wearing the feminist colours of purple, green and white, was a sight to behold. The last dinner was held in 2005. Mary Owen was a very early supporter of the Australian Women's Archives Project.

  • 1977 Awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal
  • 1984 Order of Australia Medal

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Selected resources (23)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Women We Know
    Harper, Jan and Lee, Jenny
    [1988]
  2. 100 Years of Women's Suffrage 1908-2008: Reflection and Celebration
    RMIT University Students from School of Architecture and Design and School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
    [2007]
    Published: RMIT University
    Series: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~league/PDF/RMITbooks/Mary%20Owen%20ebook.pdf
  3. Why have a Working Women's Centre?Blueprint: Journal of the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia August : Why have a Working Women's Centre?
    Owen, Mary
    [1979]
  4. Working Women: Discussion papers from the Working Women's Centre Melbourne
    Owen, Mary and Shaw, Sylvie
    [1979]
    Published: Melbourne Sisters
  5. The Political Participation of WomenLabor Essays Evans, Gareth and Reeves, John : The Political Participation of Women
    Owen, Mary
    [1980]
    Published: Drummond
  6. Stress in the WorkplaceWork and Health: Issues in Occupational Health: Proceeings of the Occupational Health in Women in Technological Change Conference National Status of Women Committee : Stress in the Workplace
    Owen, Mary
    [1982]
  7. Edna Minna RyanAustralian Rationalist 43 Autumn-Winter : Edna Minna Ryan
    Owen, Mary
    [1997]
  8. I confess I'd rather work for a few reformsVashti: Journal of Women's Liberation Movement April : I confess I'd rather work for a few reforms
    Owen, Mary
    [1977]
  9. Discrimination - what does it mean?Journal of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union October : Discrimination - what does it mean?
    Owen, Mary
    [1978]
  10. What Choice Women?Social Alternatives 1 4 : What Choice Women?
    Owen, Mary
    [1979]
  11. What came out of Copenhagen? The definition and relevance of education for women in developing countriesJournal of the Institute of Secretaries : What came out of Copenhagen? The definition and relevance of education for women in developing countries
    Owen, Mary
    [1980]
  12. The Working Women's CentreRadical Education Dossier Autumn : The Working Women's Centre
    Owen, Mary
    [1981]
  13. Making Affirmative Action WorkIMPA Bulletin: Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management Australian Inc. Victoria Division July : Making Affirmative Action Work
    Owen, Mary
    [1984]
  14. Women: a wastefully exploited resourceSearch28/05/2010 Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Oct/Nov : Women: a wastefully exploited resource
    Owen, Mary
    [1984]
  15. Women's Rights in the Workplace: What's being done to improve them?Leaving School: It's harder for girls Dyson, Sue and Szirom, Tricia : Women's Rights in the Workplace: What's being done to improve them?
    Owen, Mary
    [1983]
  16. A decade of Mary Owen dinners
    Waterfield, Dorothy
    [1995]
    Published: Mary Owen Dinner Committee
  17. Living Generously: women mentoring women
    Scutt, Jocelynne A.
    [1996]
    Published: Artemis
  18. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism
    Lake, Marilyn
    [1999]
    Published: Allen & Unwin
  19. The University of Melbourne Archives: Mary Owen Papers
    Details not known yet
  20. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Papers of Mary Owen (1951 - 1997)
    Records of activities of the Melbourne Working Women's Centre; submissions to various enquiries into matters concerning women; contributions to Progressive Reform Party; minutes of meetings of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (ACSPA) Women's Committee.
    MS 13367
  21. National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room: [Biographical cuttings on Mary Owen, co-ordinator of the Working Women's Centre, Melbourne, 1981]
  22. The University of Melbourne Archives: Working Women's Centre Papers (1907 - 1985)
    Minutes and agendas 1977-1981, reports, consultants, material on major womens'organisations, conferences including Womens' Trade Union on the problems of working women and labour. Also subject files on womens' welfare issues including education, employment, health and safety and equal opportunity. Subject files and photographs. Mainly offprints, cuttings etc., of articles and papers relating to aspects of women and work - unionism, equal pay, etc. includes copy of material about the First Exhibition of Women's Work, namely: 1 Copy of introduction from programme of opening ceremony; 2 List of office-bearers (includes JW Barret) 3 Series of articles written by Mrs EF Allan for the Argus describing exhibition in detail15/10-1/121907 NB A full catalogue of the First Exhibition of Women's. Work is now available on microfiche at the Latrobe Library Outwards correspondence files, 1975-1977 Subject files:- Women: Health; Education; Family Planning; Technology; Occupational health and safety; Equal pay; Discrimination; Other. Accession No 80 70, 86 89, 86 134, 88 102, 88 93
  23. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Edna Ryan (1948 - 1993)
    Press clippings, subject files, diaries, notebooks, correspondence, articles, drafts of books, conference papers, submissions and publications on issues such as equal pay for women, employment conditions, child care, abortion and trade union matters. People, organisations and events mentioned include: Anne Conlon, Wendy Fatin, Wendy McCarthy, Mary Owen, Pat Richardson, Mum Shirl, Gough Whitlam, Women's Electoral Lobby, ALP, National Foundation of Australian Women, Women's Trade Union Commission, International Women's year Conference (1975) and National Women's Conference (1990).
    MS 9140

Resources by Mary Owen (39)

  1. Mary Owen: women's liberation activist. -An interview-
    Owen, Mary
    Protesters
    [ Article : 1987 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.947)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.947)

  2. Papers
    Owen, Mary
    [ Unpublished : 1951-1997 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.551)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.551)

  3. Working women : discussion papers from the Working Women's Centre, Melbourne
    Owen, Mary
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At 38 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.011)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.011)

  4. A family of my own / by Mary Owen
    Owen, Mary
    [ Book : 1976 ]
    At CARM Centre
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.717)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.717)

  5. Women, a wastefully exploited resource / Mary Owen
    Owen, Mary
    [ Book : 1983 ]
    At Murdoch University
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.684)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.684)

  6. Working women : discussion papers from the Working Women's Centre / compiled by Mary Owen and Sylvie Shaw
    Owen, Mary
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At 4 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.398)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.398)

  7. Papers
    Owen, Mary
    [ Unpublished ]
    At Uni Melbourne Arch
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.013)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.013)

  8. Responding : basic sequence. Sister Mary Owen and N. Reed Mathis ; editorial direction, Alan C. Purves
    Owen, Mary
    [ Book : 1973 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.296)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.296)

  9. Superannuation was not meant for women
    Owen, Mary
    Australian Quarterly
    [ Article : 1984-1985 ]
    View online
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.044)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.044)

  10. Developing a love of reading: why young adult literature is important
    Owen, Mary
    Orana
    [ Article : 2003 ]
    View online (conditions apply)
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.681)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.681)

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  1. A decade of Mary Owen dinners / [edited by Dorothy Waterfield]
    Waterfield, Dorothy
    [ Book : 1995 ]
    At 11 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.053)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.053)

  2. [Biographical cuttings on Mary Owen, co-ordinator of the Working Women's Centre, Melbourne, 1981, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.467)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.467)

  3. Mary Owen: women's liberation activist. -An interview-
    Owen, Mary
    Protesters
    [ Article : 1987 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.626)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.626)

  4. Papers
    Owen, Mary
    [ Unpublished : 1951-1997 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.168)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.168)

  5. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owen : three letters, Lincoln to Mrs. O.H. Browning, I.N. Arnold to O.H. Browning, O.H. Browning to I.N. Arnold
    Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881; Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884; Barker, Harry Ellsworth, 1862-
    [ Book : 1922 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.137)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.137)

  6. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owen : three letters, Lincoln to Mrs. O.H. Browning, I.N. Arnold to O.H. Browning, O.H. Browning to I.N. Arnold
    Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
    [ Book : 1922 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.202)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.202)

  7. Social Justice and Children in Care
    Stein, Mike
    The Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law
    [ Article : 1994 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.342)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.342)

  8. The family [Series of two parts]: Part 1: Four million variations on a theme. Part 2: When politicians' appeals backfire
    Preston, Yvonne
    Sydney Morning Herald
    [ Article : 1983 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.082)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.082)

  9. Papers of Edna Ryan
    Ryan, Edna, 1904-1997
    [ Unpublished : 1948-1993 ]
    At National Library
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.901)

  10. The life of Ryan. -Edna Ryan, a champion of the rights of working women in Australia-
    Cadzow, Jane
    Sydney Morning Herald. Good Weekend
    [ Article : 1994 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 0.812)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 0.812)

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    My GrandMother Ivy Potter(Reynolds) was the daughter of Owen and Mary Reynolds of the Reynolds Family Hotel in Cooktown.

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    www.womenaustralia.info
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 0.943)

  2. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
    www.womenaustralia.info
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  3. Website: Putting skirts on the sacred benches : women candidates for the New South Wales Parliament
    www.womenaustralia.info
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  1. Water colors by Miss Gladys Owen : [collection of exhibition and auction catalogues]
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    [ Published : 1910-1936 ]
    At State Library of NSW
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  2. Smoot, Abraham Owen
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    [ Unpublished : 1836 ]
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  3. [Correspondence and other ephemera accompanying Elizabeth Robins Pennell's copy of her biography of Charles Godfrey Leland]
    Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907
    [ Published : 1900 ]
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  1. Darling system, Western Australia, scale 1:250 000. Darling system, vegetation complexes by E.M. Heddle, O.W. Loneragan, and J.J. Havel, Forests Department, Perth, Western Australia ; vegetation complexes defined in relation to landform and soil unit...
    Heddle, E. M
    [ Map : 1978 ]
    At UWA Library
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  2. The Long-Bell Lumber Company and subsidiary companies proposed general plan of Longview and vicinity showing townsite, suburban additions, industrial waterfront, and industrial sites, Cowlitz Valley Cowlitz County Washington, (1925)
    Longview Company Real Estate Department
    [ Map : 1925-2000 ]
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  3. Robert S. Ellison Collection
    Ellison, Robert Spurrier
    [ Map, Unpublished : 1833 ]
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  1. Larousse encyclopedia of the earth / Léon Bertin ; translation by R. Bradshaw and Mary M. Owen
    Bertin, Léon, 1896-1956
    [ Book : 1956-1972 ]
    Languages: English, French
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.662)

  2. The booster and the snitch / department store shoplifting
    Cameron, Mary Owen
    [ Book : 1964 ]
    At 7 libraries
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.84)

  3. The everything parent's guide to raising your adopted child : a complete handbook to welcoming your adopted child into your heart and home / Corrie Lynne Player with Brette McWhorter and Mary C. Owen.
    Player, Corrie Lynne, 1942-
    [ Book : 2008 ]
    At 11 libraries
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  4. Jesus and Mary / Graham Owen and Alison Seaman
    Owen, Graham, 1946-
    [ Book : 1998 ]
    At 13 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.424)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.424)

  1. Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle
    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
    TLS. Times Literary Supplement
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1818-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Persian, Greek, Modern (1453- ), [14 others]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 172 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.599)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.599)

  2. 'Spit and grit' help Owen open doors for people with disabilities. (Mary Jane Owen) (Ministries Supplement: Ways in which ordinary and extraordinary people minister)
    Vidulich, Dorothy
    National Catholic Reporter
    [ Article : 1992 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.117)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.117)

  3. The next step.(promotion of Mary Owen as the Buffalo Bills' executive vice president for strategic planning)(Interview)
    O'Shei, Tom
    Business First of Buffalo
    [ Article : 2011 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.964)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.964)

  4. Owen and Reeve Debate Killing Embryos.(the use of embryo stem cells is debated before Congress by two disabled persons" Mary Jane Owen and Christopher Reeve)
    National Right to Life News
    [ Article : 2000 ]
    View online (conditions apply)
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.641)

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    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1818-2011 ]
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    At 172 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.399)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.399)

  2. You, me and Dupree
    Wilson, Owen, 1968-
    [ Video : 2006 ]
    At 19 libraries
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  3. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / selected and structured for the stage by Patrick Sandford
    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
    [ Book, Audio book : 1994-2011 ]
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  4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
    Shaffer, Mary Ann, 1934-2008
    [ Book, Audio book : 2008-2010 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 109 libraries
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.089)

  1. ENTERTAINMENTS. Tropical Theatre. Saturday. Three-star Programme Ethe[?] Clayton, Mary Corr, Owen Moore.
    Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) Saturday 12 June 1926 p 3 Article
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  2. LAW REPORT. SUPREME COURT.—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. In Lunacy.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice OWEN.) RE MARY CUFF.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Friday 25 December 1891 p 2 Article
    ... Owen.) RE MARY CUFF. Mr Mann, instructed by Mr J Thompson, for the potitioners, Annie Wise and Henry ... Mary Cuff This was a potition by Annio Wiso and Hours Wiso, tho sister and brothor of tlio respondent, Mary Cuff, of Langlo. Wallis street Woollahra, svidoss mid tlio petition naked that it might bo ... 2612 words
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  3. The Blackboys Little List.
    Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907) Saturday 22 February 1896 p 10 Article
    ... The Blackboys Little List. E. Sexton, W. Vontheiin, E. Harris, Ethel Brett, A. Vincent, Wallace Morrow, Miriam Bryant, Ethel Burns; Mary Brown, Florence Owen, Laura Owen, W. Wentworth, Lottle Long. ... 30 words
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