Tagged Sex Discrimination Act

Three ways to legislate for gender equality in the APS

Career Advice

Developments in employment law could progress gender equality but it’s time to look towards the next tranche of innovations and reforms.

Breaking down barriers that create the gendered digital divide in the public sector

By Sue Williamson

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Tracking the numbers of women in STEMM areas is key to assessing the APS’s progress in rectifying the gendered digital divide.

AG invites consultation for outstanding Respect@Work reforms

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

The commonwealth attorney-general has invited submissions on what law reforms are needed to adopt the national Respect@Work report.

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Respect@Work: experts ask, who’ll do the heavy lifting?

By Melissa Coade

Federal

Two legal academics and anti-discrimination experts reflect on the chops of Scott Morrison’s Respect@Work plan.

Zali Steggall to introduce bill that makes sexual harassment illegal ‘in all circumstances’

By Shannon Jenkins

Federal

Independent MP Zali Steggall has proposed that the Sex Discrimination Act be amended to ensure MPs and judges are held to account for workplace sexual harassment.

Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made

By Chris Wallace

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Rivalled only by the achievement of voting rights for women earlier in the 20th century, the Sex Discrimination Act Susan Ryan created and saw through parliament was the single biggest step forward for women in Australian history.

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