What causes a woman to become an activist?How does this foundation shape her activism?What approach is most effective in assisting other women? This book by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey seeks to...
January 2013 COMPLETE REPORT Executive summary The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) conducted a research study between 19 December 2012 and 31 December 12 to explore and understand through...
A New Solution for an Age-old problem The time has come to recognise that if it has not been possible to eradicate leadership inequities experienced by women, then it is...
Aruna Gajbhiye is an Associate Professor at Tirpude College of Social Work, in Nagpur in India. Aruna has worked in a various positions like community worker, programme co-ordinator, contributory lecturer for 7 years...
At a Fiji Judiciary Criminal Law Workshop for Judges and Magistrates in June 2012, Nazhat Shameem, a Barrister in Fiji and former Fiji High Court Judge, presented a paper on Gender,...
Coaching Insights for Coaches - Listening to the Inner Game An introduction to the book's themes is at: http://youtu.be/3XQwWRnkQBM http://youtu.be/3XQwWRnkQBM "Diann's analysis of her personal experiences provides a fascinating insight into...
Setting the suffrage celebrations in context, Rosemary Cadden, journalist with the Women's Suffrage Centenary Secretariat describes the first wave "shrieking sisterhood", the second wave "women's liberation" and the third wave...
Professor James Sarros is Deputy Head of the Department of Management at Monash University. He has a Bachelors degree in arts (literature) and a diploma in education from La Trobe...
Dr Jocelynne Scutt, Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Tasmania Merit, Equality and the 'No Change' Principle in Workplace Culture Equal to a man, or less?Measured by brains, intellect, wit and intelligence.By merit in...
According to the United Nations, 140 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), also referred to as female circumcision, is a term...
Australia’s first national Paid Parental Leave scheme started on 1 January 2011. It provides eligible working parents with 18 weeks of Parental Leave Pay at the National Minimum Wage, currently...
John Baldoni Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, once wrote: "No sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces—never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen." Mr. Buffet is...
ACLW's Expert Climate Change Panelists were asked: What are your views on what the Gillard government is attempting to put in place to reduce Australia's carbon emissions?Do you see it...
Between February and July 2011, the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse (ADFVC) at the University of New South Wales conducted a national online domestic violence and the workplace survey....
Dr Shirley Randell (www.shirleyrandell.com.au) has in 2006 taken up a new position in Rwanda as Senior Advisor, Responsibility and Accountability in Local Government - RALG/Gender for nine countries in East and...
Tony Abbott's latest thoughts on paid parental leave have been said to have created uncertainty for families who might be planning to have a baby, ripples of discontent in his...
21 November was Go Home on Time Day, an initiative of The Australia Institute. Now in its fourth year, Go Home on Time Day provides an opportunity for raising awareness...
The 2010 recipients of CLW’s Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA) have made outstanding contributions in their workplaces to advance the empowerment of women. They pioneered in non-traditional...
In 2011 as the Australian Parliament resumed debating the need for action on climate change, CLW invited women to influence action on climate change from an informed stand point of...
On 1 November 2010, following the re-election of the Gillard Labor Government in 2010, Kate Ellis became the Minister for Employment Participation and Child Care and the Minister for the...