Media Releases
25 July 2008
25 years since CEDAW – still no paid maternity leave
While celebrating 25 years since Australia ratified the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), NFAW still sees the need for greater efforts to eliminate gender discrimination.
15 July 2008
Paid maternity leave good for women's careers
Based on Australia's experiences with maternity leave, NFAW rebuts recent UK media reports saying that paid maternity leave adversely impacts women's careers.
8 July 2008
NGOs collaborate on Sex Discrimination Inquiry
The National Foundation for Australian Women welcomes the Inquiry into the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act announced by the Government in June this year, and is collaborating with the Combined Community Legal Centres Group in order to provide resources that will help women's organisations make informed submissions to the Review.
12 June 2008
Paid maternity leave can benefit small business
The paid maternity leave scheme recommended by NFAW to the Productivity Commission will put small business on an equal footing with large organisations. The proposed scheme provides all employees with 28 weeks paid parental leave and 4 weeks paid paternity leave paid through a fund made up of a government contribution and a pooled levy on all employers of less than 1 per cent of labour costs.
Events
Winter Tales: Virginia Hausegger
3 August 2008
Once again this winter, the ACT Group of the Australian
Women’s Archive Project is holding a series of talks
on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday 3 August, Virginia
Haussegger, journalist and author of the controversial book,
"Modern Woman", will give her ‘take’
on life in Canberra, women’s lives, their choices, or
lack of them, and prospects for the future.
Winter Tales: Dr Christine Phillips
31 August 2008
The ACT Group of the Australian Women's Archive Project is holding another Winter Tales talk. Dr Christine Phillips assists survivors of trauma and torture. She will be talking about medical work with newly arrived refugees.
Current projects and activities
- Australian Women’s Archives Project – a strategy to identify and support preservation of women’s records and make them accessible to researchers, and it includes an online Register of the location and content of women’s records
- Women on Boards – a network focussed on mentoring women into directorships
- Social policy work - in 2006 this group is working on benchmarking working women's wages and conditions, and problems in the income support available to women wanting to re-skill themselves.
- Women’s History Month– in March each year, a specific contribution of Australian women is promoted; this year it was 'Arm in Arm: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Women Working Together'
- NFAW preferred donor fund supports a diverse range of activities. Examples include administering the Marian Eldridge Award (an annual award for aspiring women writers) and supporting the Pamela Denoon lecture presented on International Women’s Day every year (speakers have included Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Judy Horacek and Anne Summers).
Membership of NFAW is open to anyone interested in supporting the goals of NFAW.
Donations to NFAW are tax deductible, and donors can also choose to make tax deductible donations to our own specific projects (Australian Women’s Archives Project, Australian Women’s History Forum and the Social Policy Committee) as well as to other women’s organisations and projects through the NFAW preferred donor arrangements.
