Intimate partner violence contributes more to the burden than any other risk factor in women aged 18-44 years, more than well known risk factors like tobacco use, high cholesterol or use of illicit drugs;
Category: Rights
Gender equality: Rwanda @ number 5, Australia @ number 46
Australia ranks at number 46 (down from 36th win 2015). Global pay parity is now 170 years away.
Significance of the gender divide in financial services in 2014
The value or importance of cultural change continues to be perceived in starkly di erent ways by male and female respondents.
For women, it is the primary issue to be addressed by the industry to encourage greater participation, consistent with the 2012 and 2010 surveys.
In responses to the open-ended questions at the end of this survey report, cultural change is often linked, or seen as a component part of, other policy measures such as workplace exibility or access to childcare.
“The culture needs to change to allow men to take up more exible work options — until workplace practice sees men as the norm in working exibly too, women will always remain at a disadvantage.”
Health is a hot topic, now what about health and women?
One of the three major parties has no health policy for women. Which one?
NFAW have looked at how the election’s shaping up for women
We know what this election means for big business, small business, climate change, tax and super reform but very little about the 50 per cent of the population who is often disadvangtaged or discriminated against in policy formulation.
