The Victorian Women’s Health Network welcomes the launch of Our Equal State: Victoria’s gender equality strategy and action plan 2023 – 2027.
Small Change, Big Impact: Women’s Health Services Network Collective Impact Report.
The Victorian Women’s Health Services Network are proud to launch Small Change, Big Impact: Women’s Health Services Network Collective Impact Report. The report captures the combined impact of the women’s health sector to advance Victorian women’s health and equality – a key part of Victoria’s public health infrastructure for four decades.
Our reaction to 2023/24 Victorian state budget: a promising investment into health and wellbeing for migrant and refugee women
The 23/24 Victorian State Budget provides a welcome investment into women’s health and wellbeing. The women’s health initiatives announced in today’s budget have the potential to ensure that migrant women have the healthcare they need, where they need it, in their local areas.
Women’s Health Services Network: Priorities for the Victorian State Budget 2023
The Women’s Health Services support the Victorian State Government’s leadership and commitment to women’s health and gender equality as part of its policy and reform agenda.
July Training Program: Intersectionality 101
Intersectionality 101 is an interactive three-hour workshop to introduce intersectionality as a valuable concept and tool for community workers, health providers and policy makers. This workshop is suitable for those who want to ensure that their service delivery, project work…
Intersectionality Matters: A new resource for preventing violence against women
Intersectionality Matters: A guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Those of us who support women’s reproductive rights watched with horror this month as the clock was suddenly turned back on women’s access to health care. Several days into Donald Trump’s presidency the ‘Global Gag Rule’ was reinstated, a signature…
Six things you need to know about intersectionality
Last week (19-21 September) the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) and Our Watch held ‘Prevalent and Preventable’, an international conference on violence against women. The conference provided an important opportunity for service workers, community advocates, policy makers, researchers, government,…
Celebrating the Party Spoilers
Untitled (Sergey Sus/flickr) Whether it’s the end-of-year work parties, the start-of-summer BBQs or family get-togethers, for many of us December is a time of intense socialising. That’s why December is also a particularly dangerous month for becoming ‘the party spoiler’.…
Somewhere over the rainbow
The LGBTIQ rainbow symbolically covers all diversity within its arches. It is an open, bright and positively welcoming flag that many of us, who stand somewhere within its colours, are proud to fly. But what of women and trans people…