Address by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd on Family Violence - 17
September 2008
Australian Women's Health Network National Agenda - The purpose of this position paper is to set out a new national agenda for women’s health in Australia. It does so by outlining the key arguments for making women’s health a priority of governments, health
professionals and the broader community and proposes a framework and process through which this can be achieved.
Changing lives
A new approach to family violence in Victoria - November 2005 Considering 'elder abuse' and sexual
assault.
This article considers the research on the nature and impact of sexual assault against older women, and suggests implications of this for responding to older
women as victim and survivors of sexual assault. To read the full report see the attached web link: http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/newsletter/n15.html#considering
Gender and Diversity: An Equity Approach to Practice
A pilot project for Barwon South West Regional Women's Health Program (Training Portfolio, September 2001. Gender and
diversity lens for health and human services - Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy Stage Two: 2006–2010 In the development of stage two of the Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy, consultation and research demonstrated the need for a resource to assist department staff and workers in funded
organisations make sense of the gender and diversity implications of their work. The result is this lens, which has been designed as a support toolkit, with a number of related sections that can be considered individually or together. Gender equality - What matters to Australian women and men report -by Elizabeth Brodrick - Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner with three key themes: economic independence for women, work life balance across life cycle & freedom from discrimination, harassment and violence
Report from Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Listening Tour Back to top Impact on Children
Children and domestic violence: a research overview of the impact on children by Catherine Humphreys and Audrey Mullender - June 2004 Life course transitions and housework: marriage, parenthood, and time on housework
This article examines the effects of transitions in marital and parenthood status on 1091 men’s and women’s housework hours using two waves of data
from an Australian panel survey titled Negotiating the Life Course. It examines transitions between cohabitation and marriage, and from cohabitation or marriage to separation, as well as transitions to first and higher-order births. It finds extraordinary stability in men’s housework time across most transitions but
considerable change for women in relation to transitions in parenthood. The results suggest that the transition to parenthood is a critical moment in the development of an unequal gap in time spent on routine household labor.
http://www.uqsrc.uq.edu.au/publications/lifecoursetransitions.pdf Marriage breakdown in Australia: social correlates, gender and initiator status
This paper aims to obtain a
better understanding of marriage breakdown in the Australian context, with a particular focus on gender differences in the social correlates of marriage breakdown. It analyses retrospective data from all persons who were currently or had been previously married at Wave 1 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in
Australia (HILDA) survey (2001). The findings are grouped into three main themes:
• Social characteristics are important for understanding marriage breakdown.
• Women are more likely to initiate separation than men.
• Gender differences in the decision to separate or remain married.
http://www.facs.govau/internet/facsinternet.nsf/research/prps-prps_35.htm Metamorphosis
A Women's Music
Theatre project exploring mental health and wellbeing. Back to top
Ministerial Advisory Committee on Women's Housing
Report to the Minister for Community Services and Housing
Measuring the burden of disease caused by intimate partner violence - the
health cost of violence. A summary of findings. This publication is a summary of a study conducted to assess the health impact of intimate partner violence on women. The study was supported by VicHealth in partnership with the Department of Human Services and was conducted with contributions from a range of
experts from across Victoria and elsewhere.
No-one's Home. Health and Housing: Identifying the Links, Gaps and Solutions- for women and children experiencing homelessness in the Barwon Region
Prepared on behalf of the
Salvation Army Kardinia Women's Sevices - 24 March 2003
Reforming the Family Violence System in Victoria
Report of the Statewide Steering Committee to Reduce Family Violence - 2005 Safe at Work?
Women's Experience of Violence in the Workplace. Summary report of research - September 2005 from
the Office of Women's Policy.
Setting The Standard - international good practice to inform an Australian national plan of action to eliminate violence against women Back to top This is Real Life - Post Natal Depression booklet
(Print this booklet back to back on alternating pages.)
This is the booklet that accompanies the "This is Real Life" video which can be purchased for $15.00. Click on the order form This is Real Life - Order form
for more details. Timing of mothers' return to work after
childbearing: Variations by job
Maternal employment rates are lowest in the first year of a child's life, as women leave or take a break from employment to care for an infant. Within this first year, however, there is considerable variation of maternal
employment rates as some women make their way back to the workforce. This paper explores the timing of mothers' return to work using data from the 2005 Parental Leave in Australia Survey (PLAS). Whether this leave was paid, unpaid or a combination of paid and unpaid was associated with differences in the return-to-work
patterns within this 18-month period, but by 18 months the likelihood of a mother returning to work differed very little across all these categories. Women who used only paid leave had a slightly higher rate of return to work than those who used only unpaid leave, with those who used a combination of paid and unpaid leave
having a rate of return to work between these two groups. Other factors related to differences in timing of return to work are also discussed. http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/rp42/rp42.html Where have all the children gone?: Trends in the childlessness of professional women in Australia
It is
well-established that the fertility rate for women with a tertiary education is lower than for women without a tertiary education; however there has been little research examining whether the gap in fertility between women with higher education and in professional occupations and other women has narrowed or widened across
time. In this paper, focusing on childlessness we examine both working women (using occupational categories) and all women (using educational attainment) aged between 20 and 44. We have focused particularly on women working in, or qualified for, some selected high prestige professions - doctors, lawyers, dentists and vets,
as well as on women with other tertiary qualifications and working in other professional or managerial occupations. Our findings suggest that, between 1986 and 2006, childlessness has grown at a slower rate for women with tertiary education than for all women, although these women continue to have the highest rates of
childlessness. http://www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=220359 Back to top
Women’s Health Matters: From Policy to Practice 10 point plan for Victorian women’s health 2005-2010
Women’s Health Victoria has recently developed the following resources, which are
available on our website http://www.whv.org.au and in our Clearinghouse. Please feel free to use the attached copies in your organisation, and in particular to promote them via newsletters where appropriate.
Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: A
Literature Review (May 08)
Gender Impact Assessment: Mental Health (Oct 07)
Bacterial
Vaginosis: A Literature Review (Aug 07)
Women & Hepatitis C (May 07)
Workplace Wellbeing for Women Working in Rural and Regional Community Health Settings in the Barwon South
Western Region of Victoria
Summary report of focus group consultations with recommendations (added 27 February 2006) Back to top Archived Publications To view publications that are not current but may be of value
click here Back to top Publications Wanted Wholewoman would like to publish writings by and about women of the Barwon-South Western Region. This is a free service.
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