A/Professor Magdalena Simonis Chair of AFMW Climate Health Action Group, along with Dr Kate Wylie, CEO of Doctors For the Environment Australia have a statement to make this International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a call to include women in disaster management planning and leadership. Women bear the brunt of climate related disasters, and this article draws attention to this.
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, Women & Leadership Australia has launched new partial scholarships to help more women at all levels access our career-defining leadership development programs. Applications close 24 March 2024. Find out more.
EVENT – AMA Victoria and the Women in Medicine Committee invite all members to a special event for International Women’s Day 2024 to be held Tuesday 12 March, 2024 at the Studley Grounds, Kew. Secure your spot today.
A group of women leaders were asked, What is one thing you want to see women and girls achieve as we work to solve the climate crisis? My reply was,‘ I want to see the empowerment of women through education, access to technology and leadership of roles.Women across the globe have shown themselves to be innovators and instigators of meaningful and relevant climate action and policy. Investing in women will have substantial benefits for our planet and future generations.’ Watch the video.
On International Women’s Day 2023, ACT and Region MWS held its annual cocktail party at the home of one of our members with the aim of welcoming newcomers most often students to ACT. It was supported by Compass Fertility.
Hosted by Women’s Agenda and ActionAid Australia, this special virtual event to be held 6th March 2023, will feature an inspiring line-up of speakers discussing the critical role that women play in shaping our future as they address the impacts of climate change. Register today.
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.
This year’s International Women’s Day theme of 2022 is ‘Break the Bias’, and encourages us to imagine a gender equal world, free of stereotypes and discrimination. I enjoyed partnering with my RACGP Women In General Practice Committee friends, and we brought together this video following one of our zoom meetings in which I suggested we each video ourselves uttering a powerful one – liner relevant to the theme of “breaking the bias”. Watch the video.
In this article, originally published by the Grattan Institute, the authors discuss a triple whammy copped by Australian women due to COVID, experiencing more impact than males.
Dr Marjorie Cross, OAM, AFMW representative for ACT and Region MWS, shares her take home messages this year: #IWD ‘Choose to Challenge’.
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