Women's Rights `off The Agenda'

FACT: Australian women's total average weekly earnings are just 66 per cent of men's. FACT: The proportion of women in full-time employment has not increased in 30 years. FACT: In 1996, a reported 1.1million women had suffered domestic violence; in 2001, a reported 13,500 had been sexually assaulted. MYTH: Prime Minister John Howard's claim in 2002 that the feminist battle had been won.