Women
Standing up for women’s rights at work
Union members are leading the fight for gender equality in the workplace, ensuring that all women receive fair wages, equal opportunities, and workplace protections. This section highlights how collective action is securing paid parental leave, fighting gender pay gaps, and pushing for policies that support women’s job security and career advancement. By standing together, union members are creating safer, fairer workplaces for all women.
Ending workplace discrimination and gender inequality
Women continue to face challenges such as workplace harassment, unequal pay, and job insecurity. Unions are actively working to enforce stronger anti-discrimination laws, increase superannuation for women, and ensure flexible work arrangements that support working mothers and caregivers. These ongoing campaigns give women the power to challenge inequality and demand better conditions at work.
Join the movement for fairer workplaces
Union members are pushing for real change, from stronger workplace protections to better wages for women in low-paid industries. By becoming a union member, you help drive the fight for equal rights at work, ensuring that all women have the same opportunities, pay, and respect in the workplace.
View our articles below for more information about Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the workplace!
Paid Family and Domestic Leave – we’ve waited long enough
February 28, 2022
All workers deserve the time, support, and job security to safely escape and recover from an abusive relationship.
Providing free early childhood education and childcare is vital for the economic recovery
February 24, 2022
In July 2020, Australian Unions released our plan for National Economic Reconstruction. The first part…
We’re taking action for fairer paid parental leave
November 18, 2021
For new families, a sense of financial security is undeniably valuable. But, on the other hand, so is spending quality time with young children and being there to support partners during the ups and downs.
We can’t improve women’s workplace rights without action on insecure work: Michele O’Neil
November 17, 2021
Australian working women are hoping that 2021 is a year that will be remembered for generating real change leading to gender equality. Because we should not have to wait for respect, safety and equality.
Early Childhood Education and Care isn’t just an “incentive”: it’s essential national infrastructure
October 22, 2021
The crucial educational, social and economic role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been further highlighted over the past two years, as the interruptions of lockdowns and distancing have exacerbated longstanding barriers to accessing free, high-quality, ECEC in Australia, writes Lauren Piko
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins are leading the next wave of feminism. And it’s time to act now.
October 22, 2021
We were all together that day back in March. Thousands of Australian women in marches…
It’s time to talk about menopause in the workplace
October 12, 2021
Menopause can impact work, so why aren’t workplaces talking about it? Let’s take a look at how workplaces can become more menopause friendly.
Respect@Work must be the starting point
September 3, 2021
This week, the Senate debated a partial, incomplete and cherry-picked list of recommendations which were drawn from the Sex Discrimination Commission’s Respect@Work report, published over a year ago.
Australia has a chance to make workplaces safer, but Morrison is ignoring key rights women fought hard to achieve
August 25, 2021
The Government must adopt the Respect@Work recommendations so no worker has to choose between their job and their safety, writes Michele O’Neil
“I live week to week”, what a minimum wage increase means for workers
May 24, 2021
If we want our economy to recover, working people need a pay rise – three workers share what a minimum wage increase would mean to them.