AFMW is an affiliate with AWHL – am very proud to have forged this relationship with AWHL – and we are in their community of practice which meets every couple of months to contribute to the project, which I participate in along with reps from their other member organisations.
Thanks to Workplace Gender Equality Agency ( WHEA), the data is out! The WGEA Data Explorer allows users to explore the gender equality outcomes for industries, industry sub-divisions, groups of employers by size and individual employers.
The Gender Equality Act of 2020 Victoria requires certain organisations (defined entities) to undertake a workplace gender audit and regularly collect and report data on gender equality in the workplace. In light of our partnership with Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership, I recommend you share these with your organisational members, colleagues and across the states.
This is a step in the right direction towards equality and is one of the key points AFMW raised in the Consultation on the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality. Economic empowerment of women gives women choice. Read the Women’s Agenda article,
This is an invitation to all readers of the AFMW ebulletin to complete the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality survey and have their say. Final date for submissions is 19th April 2023.
Financial literacy is important and something we don’t receive any education in. Yet, this is an important key to achieving equality in all spheres of life. Hence, I decided it was worth sharing The Guardian’s evocative pictorial on how to manage funds and prepare for the future.
In this inSight+ article Dr Sidney Chandrasiri, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Epworth HealthCare in Melbourne writes how tall poppy syndrome and unconscious rivalry from female leaders in more senior roles are two facets that are often unacknowledged. Read this InSight+ article.
In this article, published in InSight + and Neos Kosmos, AFMW president, Dr Magdalena Simonis shares how we need everyone to be recruited into this collective vision of a gender equal world that is free of bias.
In this InSight+ article, co-authored with Dr Kimberly Humphrey, Deputy Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, AFMW president, Associate Professor Magda Simonis discusses how gender and climate change are integrally linked.
Earlier this year I was invited to speak with at one of the weekly RACMA webinars. RACMA is short for Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. I chose my own title, “Gender Equity: I’m not biased, so what’s the big issue?” Around 90 attended from Australia, HK, NZ. Chatham House rules apply to these weekly meetings. The following is an extract of my talk and resources included in the RACMA’s Quarterly Journal (Q2 2021), “Changing Workplace Culture in the Health System”.
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