13 Aug Submission to the Australian Federal Government: Re: Building Women’s Careers Program – Risk Analysis and Mitigation Strategies
We appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback on the Building Women's Careers program. After careful review of the program's objectives and potential challenges, we present the following analysis of key risks and proposed mitigation strategies to ensure the program's success in addressing gender disparities in male-dominated industries.
Key to our advice is drawing upon the global evidence and practice of transformational gender equity, the process and approaches required to address barriers to equity including the role of women’s organisations in achieving that change. The following advice is also based upon the places and settings that the program will be implemented – male dominated trade workforces – and ensuring that the right systems and structures are in place to be relevant to the context of those environments that is well documented and researched.