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A United Nations Committee says that the new paid parental leave scheme is a good start for working women in Australia, but the Federal Government needs to go further – including increasing the payment parents receive, paying superannuation, and making the scheme available to both parents. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [...]
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We’ve heard the major parties talk about Paid Parental Leave, but what will they do about broader issues like pay equity and violence against women? We’ve come a long way, but there is still a long road ahead for gender equality in Australia, writes Emma Davidson from Equality Rights Alliance. It’s almost forty years since [...]
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On 2nd July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly voted to merge the four agencies working for women’s empowerment, into one single entity. The new agency, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women or ‘UN Women’ for short, brings together the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for [...]
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Professional women in their 30s are opting out of full-time work at an alarmingly high rate, says the author of new research released today by the University of Melbourne. Only 38 per cent of Generation X, tertiary qualified women participating in a long-running University of Melbourne study work full-time, compared to 90 per cent of [...]
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Aborted Baby Cries Before Cremation. Crematorium workers in Guangdong Province found an infant crying in a “medical waste” receptacle on its way to being cremated, reports Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The crematorium workers immediately sent the infant back to the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent the infant back to the crematorium, dead. [...]
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Australians can help mothers in places like Cambodia, Vietnam and Nepal by buying a fair trade or charitable gift for mum at Oxfam retail and online shops. Oxfam Shop Director Nadine Silverberg said giving a Fair Trade or charitable gift was a great way for people to show their support for poor mothers in developing [...]
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The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) have announced proposed changes to their Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations including changes in relation to reporting on gender. The proposed changes by the ASX recommends that entities listed on the ASX disclose in their annual report their achievement against gender objectives set by their board; and the proportion of [...]
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A new leadership group of male CEOs and Chairmen has been formed to elevate the issue of women’s representation in the corporate sector on the national business agenda. The leadership group, established at a meeting with the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, in Sydney last week, will use their collective influence to develop and drive [...]
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A Western Sydney mother of two has been told by her employer she can no longer work a family-friendly shift which allows her to collect her children from school because it is her job to “manage” her family and not her employers. Skye Chapman has been ordered by her employer Kagan Logistics to change shifts [...]
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Telstra has become the first Australian company to win the prestigious Catalyst Award, an annual international award for initiatives that support and advance women in the workplace. Telstra received the award for its Next Generation Gender Diversity: Accelerating Change for Women Leaders initiative, which has helped boost the number of women in management and executive [...]
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