ERA has joined with sixteen other organisations to call for a new approach to budgeting which will bring women’s needs into sharper focus. Read more: Media Release: Calls for structural change to budget are building as women are left behind
ERA has joined with sixteen other organisations to call for a new approach to budgeting which will bring women’s needs into sharper focus. Read more: Media Release: Calls for structural change to budget are building as women are left behind
ERA’s Romy Listo has written this piece for Broad Agenda. “Measures such as these may threaten households’ and women’s economic security and push women toward more unpaid care. As a result, they risk entrenching both the devaluing of all care work and the broader social norms in which women care, and men earn. As the […]
ERA’s Helen Dalley-Fisher and Romy Listo wrote this piece for Broad Agenda. “Women, and particularly younger women, are overrepresented in casual and insecure work that lacks workplace protections and entitlements such as paid leave and superannuation contributions, and where working hours are less reliable, and periods of unemployment are more common. Entitlements, including domestic and family violence […]
ERA’s Romy Listo wrote this piece for Broad Agenda. “At this point in the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking that gender equality has been mostly overlooked in responses to the COVID-19 crisis. The latest recovery measure looks like no exception.” You can read the full article here.
ERA’s Romy Listo and Helen Dalley-Fisher have written this piece for Broad Agenda. “If we want a cost-effective and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, a gender-aware analysis is essential. It’s nearly crunch time – the federal budget, that is due to be handed down in October, will set the agenda. But the right processes […]
ERA members are concerned about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and women’s access to health rights in Australia. Read our full statement here (pdf) or here (doc).
ERA has signed on with 15 other organisations and individuals in response to the Senate Inquiry report into ParentsNext. In response to the Report of the Senate Inquiry into ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout, a broad coalition of service providers, human rights bodies, peak bodies, researchers and advocates today calls time on ParentsNext. […]
Over 50 people joined us (in person and online) last week for the National Women’s Alliance’s #CSW63 pre-departure briefing. There was a great deal of information sharing and connecting before take off for the UN Commission on the Status of Women next month! Participants heard from previous delegates, workshopped issues and CSW strategy and received training in “internationalising” […]
If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, Please send a 200-word abstract and a 50-word bio by 1 March 2019 to amirci2019@gmail.com This conference (to be held in Sydney in July) will explore, examine, critique, theorise, and respond to key issues related to mothering in the contemporary globalised world, with a focus on […]
We have worked with the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) to produce this analysis of the Women’s Economic Security Statement. As the dust settles on the inaugural Women’s Economic Security Statement (WESS), we’ve taken a closer look at the Statement, in particular the workforce participation and economic independence pillars, and what it means for […]
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