Some must read tips for how intersectionality helps us to understand and strengthen gender equality in the workplace!
The Man Question event: Engaging migrant and refugee men in gendered violence prevention
On March 17, 2025, the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) hosted The Man Question, a thought-provoking event that explored how to meaningfully engage men—particularly from migrant and refugee backgrounds—in preventing gendered violence. Through a series of discussions, the event…
Taking up our own fight: how migrant women are tackling workplace harassment
For years now, migrant and refugee women have taken up their own fights by drawing attention to the underlying patriarchy that enables the objectification, vilification and sexual violence of women in the workplace. Before Brittany Higgins’ precedent-setting case, Dhanya Mani,…
Negotiating belonging the workplace: a steep cliff for migrant women to climb
We have known for some time that migrant and refugee women face the glass ceiling when they strive to advance in the workplace, but by looking up at the ceiling are we distracted from another more imminent peril: the risk…
Linking reproductive justice and gender equality
This month, the Australian Capital Territory has made medical and surgical abortions up to 16 weeks gestation free for all its residents, regardless of visa status. This is a huge step forward for reproductive justice in Australia. It makes the…
Achieving equality in the workplace
Migrant and refugee women experience the workplace and the labour market differently to men, and to women who are not from migrant communities. The intersection of gender and race discrimination is particularly salient in the world of work. Some of…
It’s not too late: Climate change and gender equality
As rain continues to fall and flood waters continue to rise, bringing devastation to so many homes and families across the country, the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day feels particularly timely. “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”…
Media release: Towards a Gender Equal Recovery: Jobs for Migrant and Refugee Women
A consortia of 12 Women’s Health Services and Gender Equity Victoria (GEN VIC) have employed 50 migrant and refugee women to form a rapid response workforce to train women to disseminate COVID-19 information and deliver multilingual women’s health education in…
Women and the workplace: combatting the status quo
While all eyes are rightly on Parliament House, we are reminded that gendered discrimination, gendered violence and harassment are not limited to any particular workplace.
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