A new look at gender equality (Advocate 25 01)

The legislation will be based on Safe and Strong, Victoria’s first Gender Equality Strategy. There are equal opportunity and other anti-discrimination laws in place in Victoria, but this work is being hailed as the first strategic look at obtaining equality for women. The caucus framed priorities for working women around the key priority areas of Trades Hall’s Our Feminist Agenda: Gendered violence, gender pay inequality, intersection and transitions between caring and work, and insecure and precarious work. More...