Preventing violence against women is a long-term endeavour. It requires deep cultural change in the way that we, as a community, practice our gendered interpersonal, family, workplace and social relationships. Alongside that cultural change, it means building women’s equality into…
Beyond the baby blues: Submission to the Victorian Family and Community Development Committee Public Inquiry into Perinatal Services
On the one hand, motherhood may seem like one of the most natural things in the world. On the other, it all seems like hard work when the popular benchmarks for motherhood success are ‘yummy mummies’, backyard blitz homes and…
60 seconds with Rani Pramesti
Performance maker, intercultural producer and advocate for diversity in the arts What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Collaborating with an illustrator to adapt my previous performance work, Chinese Whispers, into a digital graphic novel. What is the best…
Submission to the Victorian Family and Community Development Committee Public Inquiry into Perinatal Services
This submission has been developed by the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH), the national voice for immigrant and refugee women’s health and wellbeing. The term ‘immigrant and refugee’ refers to people who have migrated from overseas, and their children.…
The WRAP #58: Promoting positive media, collective leadership and 60 seconds with Lisha Constantino-Murphy
Last month we wrote about the possibility of a poll on same-sex marriage and this month, as we all know, it’s a reality. If you’d like to read or share our take on same-sex marriage click here. If you’re looking…
Promoting positive media
Throughout the history of Australian mass media, migrants have provided sensational opportunities for exciting news. Migrants have played the reliable fall guys, the ones that could be hauled out to boost newspaper circulation, or encourage widespread and divided debate about…
Leadership: a collective effort
Once again, new data confirms that women from immigrant backgrounds are disadvantaged when it comes to progressing to leadership positions in the workplace. This latest finding echoes the Australian Human Rights Commission’s study from the same time last year that highlighted…
60 seconds with Lisha Constantino-Murphy
Story creator and aspiring documentary maker What are you enjoying doing at the moment? At the moment I am enjoying the fact that I can celebrate some of my team’s achievements, particularly in community-based health promotion (at Djerriwarrh Health Services).…
A story about survival by MCWH staff member Ozana Bozic
First published in ISSUE No 25 – WOMEN’S HEALTH LODDON MALLEE NEWS JOURNAL on 29 November 2007 This story reveals just some of the challenges that many immigrant and refugee women experience from the time of leaving their homeland…
Free cross-cultural 'carers' training for health and allied professionals in the City of Monash
Want to improve your support of carers from a CALD background? Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is offering it’s Beyond Cultural Competency course to professionals in the City of Monash who want to improve their support of carers from…