Issues
Click on any of these issues:
- Abortion or freedom to choose has articles on many aspects of the right to choose and information about RU486, and pregnancy counselling.
- Child Care/Pre-School discusses funding and has articles on government policies and carers.
- Disability has the cost of working if disabled.
- Discrimination covers sexual harassment and discrimination in education and women on boards.
- Education deals with sex education and other matters affecting women as students.
- Financial Security deals with welfare payments and superannuation and budget comments.
- Health deals with health checks, Government initiatives and disability matters.
- Industrial Relations has many articles on IR changes and the impact on women.
- International Issues has articles on the UN positions including the Commission on the Status of Women. See recent news flashes from IAW
- Legal Issues deals with new High Court decision allowing trauma victims to apply for compensation years later. Also the Vic Human Rights Chart; provocation and child traffickers and abuse.
- Older women recognises aged care is a feminist issue and also looks at financial matters.
- Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave is a basic human right for working women. The Federal Government will pay for 18 weeks at minimum wage level for mothers earning less than $150,000.Delayed until 1 Jan 2011.
- Research includes examination and research on areas of concern in Federal and State Governments and academic bodies.
- Sexism includes advertising.
- Violence deals with abuse of women-- aboriginal, rural and urban women - both young and old -- as well as violence at work, and abuse of the elderly.
