Editing Ruby Payne-Scott (section)

===Family===
Ruby Payne-Scott and William ("Bill") Holman Hall secretly married in 1944; at this time, the Commonwealth government had legislated for a [[marriage bar]] specifying that married women could not hold a permanent position within public service. She continued to work for CSIRO while secretly married, until the regulations of the new CSIRO in 1949 raised the issue of her marriage. The following year, her treatment by CSIRO resulted in hostile written exchanges with Sir [[Ian Clunies Ross]] (Chairman of CSIRO) about the status of married women in the work place. As a result, Payne-Scott lost her permanent position in CSIRO; however, her salary was maintained at a level comparable to that of her male colleagues.<ref name="DeBakcsy2018"/> In 1951 – just a few months before her son, [[Peter Gavin Hall]], was born – Payne-Scott resigned her post due to there being no maternity leave available at the time.

On leaving her role at CSIRO – with her marriage to Bill having been exposed – Payne-Scott took her husband's name, and was then known as Ruby Hall. They had two children: [[Peter Gavin Hall]] – a mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and probability theory; and [[Fiona Margaret Hall]], an Australian artist whose career is described by Julie Ewington in her 2005 book, ''Fiona Hall''.