Equal Pay In
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New Guinea
Female New Guinea workers in the territory's Public Service will get equal pay for the same or like work as males from July 1.
Equal pay for women public servants applies in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul.
Most affected by the new rates will be several hundred nurses and teachers, and smaller numbers of clerical staff in the territory's main centres.
The new rates of pay follow nearly three years’ work by, among others, Miss Rose Kekedo (a lecturer at the Madang Teachers' Training College), a handful of New Guinean MP’s and the NG YWCA. Miss Kekedo, accompanied by several other campaigners for equal pay, made trips to Australia to seek support.
Miss Kekedo said in May she was hopeful equal pay rates for women would soon follow for women employed by business firms in NG.