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Press Release 5 June 2013 ACLW Panel on the Concerns of Women Experiencing Disadvantage in Australian Communities In the lead up to the election, whilst attention focuses on marginal seats,...
By Violet Roumeliotis, CEO of Settlement Services International Violet Roumeliotis The forced migration of people fleeing persecution is one of the major challenges in the world today. Australia has contributed to...
By Kelly Hinton, Executive Director, Project Respect Kelly Hinton Violence against women (VAW) is publicly condemned in our community, largely due to the incredible perseverance and hard work of women...
By Janelle Brown, Aboriginal Community Engagement Janelle Brown Being a community based Aboriginal woman (and worker) can be a difficult experience. I see a lot of pain and hardship around...
By Libby Davies, CEO, White Ribbon Australia One of the most insidious issues in our society that disadvantages women is men’s violence against women (VAW). Libby Davies Statistics reveal that...
The Work and Family Roundtable is made up of researchers with expertise on work and family policy. Its goal is to propose, comment upon, collect and disseminate research to inform...
Paid Parental Leave schemes that create disincentives for women to return to work and stifle workplace innovation in the business sector, will not be of long-term value, according to several...
By Kerriann Dear, Director of the Queensland Working Women’s Service Inc. (QWWS) For almost 30 years sexual harassment has been unlawful in Australian workplaces, yet while it is considered pervasive,...
Executive Summary Our landmark survey of gender diversity in the leadership of the community sector is both a good news and a bad news story.In a sector where women comprise...
The proportion of women sitting on corporate boards and executive committees in Asian companies is strikingly low compared with Europe and the United States, even though women remain under-represented in those regions too....
Women are still facing barriers to leadership positions in the government and private sector across the Asia/Pacific region, according to MasterCard’s latest Index of Women’s Advancement. See the infographic reflecting the Asia/Pacific...
WomenGenderPoliticalTransitions_Seoul2012Download This article is a Summary of Proceedings from the Regional Expert Meeting in Seoul, 4-5 December 2012.
By Dr Cathy Kezelman, President Adults Surviving Child Abuse The long-term effects of trauma experienced in childhood are a public health challenge of major proportions. Yet, despite its prevalence and impacts,...
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey, Director of the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women, reflects on just how much the gender agenda has evolved...
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,...
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...