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Associate Prof Aruna Gajbhiye – Sexual Trafficking in India

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 in different NGO’s after completion of her post graduation in social work in 1989.Besides teaching at undergraduate and Postgraduate in social work courses since 1996, […]

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Joan Kirner: The Three Waves of Feminism

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 “the glass ceiling”. The first wave – shrieking sisterhood Feminists in South Australia in the late 19th Century faced an unsympathetic media. They were labelled

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Leadership, Culture and Climate

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 University, a Master of Education (Administration) from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD (Administration and Organizational Behavior) from the University of Alberta, Canada. James

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Merit, Equality and the No Change Principle

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 argument,By merit in wisdom,By merit in capacity and drive, in energy and spirit, in expertise and commonsense,In common endowment, specialised qualification.By wisdom in brainpower,By intellect

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Genital Mutilation / Cutting

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 that describes a range of practices involving the cutting, removal, and sometimes the sewing up of the external female genitalia for cultural or other non-therapeutic

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Paid Parental Leave

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 $570 a week before tax. Taking time away from work for a new baby is a common part of working life. The Paid Parental Leave scheme

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Gender and Development Training

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 South Africa. Her previous two years were spent as UNDP Project Implementation Specialist for the Capacity Building for Gender Mainstreaming (CBGM) Project being implemented by

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Going home on time

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 and stimulating discussion about the negative impacts of poor work/life balance. We invite people to join in and “go home on time” through our website

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Women in Non-traditional Roles

Whilst much is known about the difficulties women face attaining leadership positions in the corporate world, little is known about women in non-traditional trades such as in construction. Starting with their schooling, females are given career advice which reinforces stereotypes depicting the construction industry as a dirty and harsh work environment. Girls are overlooked for

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Shattering the Glass Ceiling

In 1986, the concept of the glass ceiling was used to explain why women, despite achieving certain levels of success in industry and business are prevented from reaching the most senior levels of management due to an invisible barrier that is almost impossible to breach.  Twenty years later, despite research, evidence and an array of

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