Here is the full text of Equality Rights Alliance’s intervention at the Jobs and Skills Summit. Please note – this is the unedited version, which was subsequently edited for time on the floor of the Summit. Please check against delivery before quoting. Job and Skills Summit Two Minute Intervention Delivered 1 September 2022 I’d like […]
Here you can download the full text of Equality Rights Alliance’s intervention at the Jobs an Skills Summit. Please note – this is the unedited version, which was subsequently edited for time on the floor of the Summit. Please check against delivery before quoting.
In the wake of the Raise the Bar report by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner on the sexist culture on federal parliament, ERA has been considering whether we need quotas for women’s leadership in politics and business. Check out our research paper on this interesting area.
ERA has made a submission to the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s review of the almost 50 year old APS Maternity Leave Act. We’re calling for changes to the legislation including gender neutral language, recognising the diversity of families and the need to redistribute unpaid care between men and women, although the use of more inclusive […]
ERA’s op-ed on the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 has been published in the Canberra Times. Check it out by clicking here.
ERA has made submissions to the two inquiries into the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021. ERA fully supports the implementation of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, but this Bill changes the human right to freedom to manifest religion in fundamental ways that has the potential to limit the human rights of women and […]
ERA has joined with 9 peak bodies to express our concern about the potential effects of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021. ERA is deeply concerned that the Bill in its present form will contribute to building workplace and community cultures which are hostile to women’ leadership and safety. This press release was coordinated and led […]
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
“The COVID-19 pandemic is both a public health and an economic crisis, with long-term economic impacts to the Australian population. Women, and particularly young women, are one of the hardest hit demographics due to their overrepresentation in casual work, and in the retail and hospitality sectors. Disasters such as this pandemic have been shown to […]
ERA is part of the Snap Forward Feminist Policy Network, and contributed to this submission on COVID-19. “The Snap Forward Feminist Policy Network (SFN) is working to ensure a gender-responsive COVID-19 recovery over the immediate and longer term: we want a Snap Forward which also contributes to the achievement of gender equality. SFN brings together […]
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