Reality Check: Work Life Balance In our upcoming research Reality Check: Work Life Balance, we're addressing the hot topic of work/life balance, specifically looking it how it impacts women. Our research will address:  - What are core goals that women want to achieve?
- How and to what extent do these goals conflict?
- What are the personal, social and economic impacts of this conflict?
- What policies and community initiatives are in place in Australia to assist women in resolving the tensions?
- How could policies and initiatives be improved?
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Women's Forum Australia in the Media Media Release: FOI documents vindicate sexualisation claims June 1, 2009 Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws reveal that David Jones commissioned advertisements intended to present young girls in a sexualised manner. The documents from the New South Wales Office of the Children’s Guardian provided to Julie Gale, Director of Kids Free 2B Kids, show information indicating that young girls aged 10 to 12 years were to be posed ‘slightly more adult and sexy'. Read the full press release See also: ‘David Jones sprung for ads sexualising children ’, Kf2bK Media Release, May 31, 2009. Media Release: Parental leave pre-budget announcement May 9, 2005
Independent women's think tank Women's Forum Australia (WFA)welcomes the Treasurer's pre-budget announcement of a paid parental scheme of 18 weeks. The publicly funded scheme will provide 18 weeks' leave at the minimum wage for primary carers, or $544 a week. Either parent is eligible for the scheme. For two thirds of women who have previously gone without maternity leave in Australia, the scheme is a positive start. Read the full press release Women's Forum Australia on 9am with David and Kim April 23, 2009
 Women's Forum Australia Director Lynne Pezzullo spoke with David and Kim from Channel 10's 9am with David and Kim about the Reality Check: Work Life Balance research. Click the image to watch the segment.
Recommended Reading She works hard for the money: Australian women and the gender divide.
AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report | Issue 22 | April 2009 Australian women have achieved significant milestones over the past century but large gaps still remain between women and men in both paid and unpaid work, and areas of wealth, income and superannuation. The 22nd AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report found that over the past 20 years there has been increased pressure on women to balance work, motherhood, households and families... While the participation of women in the workplace increased considerably during this time, up 10 per cent to 58.2 per cent in 2008, Australian women face an ever-increasing juggling act. While the gender gap has narrowed there is still much to be done.
Yes: does it mean yes?
Andrew Bolt | Herald Sun| May 15, 2009 MATTHEW Johns is out of a job because yes no longer means yes, after all...He's learned that consent does not trump morality, whatever he's been told by fashionable ethicists. That's why he's been dumped by Channel 9 and Melbourne Storm, and that's also why one of those ethicists - the National Rugby League's own gender adviser - should be sacked, too... I'm talking about Prof Catharine Lumby, a post-modernist of the University of NSW and author of grants-backed studies such as Why Feminists Need Porn, who was quoted this week saying the Johns case was a "wake-up call" to other men.
In fact, the case should be a woop-woop-woop wake-up to Lumby, who for years seems to have told NRL players there's nothing wrong with precisely what has now cost Johns his job. ... when six Canterbury players were accused in 2004 of pack sex with a young woman (no charges were actually laid) and the media was agog at lurid stories of other NRL team-bonding gang bangs, Lumby urged us to chill with our silly "moral panic".
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