The Equality Rights Alliance (ERA) has called on the Federal Government to leverage the ground-breaking data work of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) by giving the agency teeth to close the action gap among employers who report to it.
The Equality Rights Alliance (ERA) has called on the Federal Government to leverage the ground-breaking data work of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) by giving the agency teeth to close the action gap among employers who report to it.
Click here to read ERA’s Media Release for Budget 2021-22
Read Helen Dalley-Fisher’s discussing the Federal Budget and the need for Gender Responsive Budgeting mechanisms to ensure a Budget for all.
ERA has released our pre-budget submission to the 2021 federal budget process, with a strong focus on the need for gender responsive budgeting.
ERA worked with Harmony Alliance, NATSIWA and a drafting team drawn from 48 organisations to prepare this shadow report to the CEDAW Committee on Australia’s progress in implementing the four recommendations identified by the Committee as relating to major obstacles to women’s enjoyment of their human rights. The Committee will refer the Australia’s report, our […]
After consultations with ERA members, ECEC providers and academics, ERA has developed a policy position on ECEC which reflects the critical role played by ECEC in promoting gender equality for women and optimal outcomes for girls.
After months of consultation with academics, members, partner organisations and current and former public servants, ERA has produced a policy statement which summarises the key elements of a functional Gender Responsive Budgeting system for the federal government.
Our 2020 pre-budget submission focuses on the need for a gender analysis on budget measures to ensure that the budget works for both women and men.
ERA, as part of the The National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group, contributed to this submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into Homelessness in Australia.
“Between the summer of bushfires, in which almost 2,500 homes were lost in NSW alone, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to ensure access to housing as part of an adequate standard of living is and will continue to be an urgent imperative. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing stated that […]
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