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Webinar: Intersectionality and Diverse Communities
On Tuesday 26 May, WHISE, on behalf of the Preventing Violence Together partnership, was proud to present a webinar called Intersectionality and Diverse Communities: From Theory to Practice. Intersectionality is a prism for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other. A huge commitment to the importance…
A Partnership for Gender Equality: Women’s Health and Prevention of Family Violence in Melbourne’s South East
A landmark partnership between Women’s Health and TAFE Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) and Chisholm TAFE will team up to advance gender equity across the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne as part of their formal partnership, announced today. “Partnerships are a vital way that grass roots change occurs in the community, and the…
Women in the South East welcome support from the Victorian Government
Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) warmly welcome the support announced today from the Victorian Government to continue the work across our region to prevent violence against women. “On behalf of our 35 partners in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne we thank the Minister for Women and the Victorian Government for this support…
Women’s and community organisations unite on COVID-19 and gender
On 2 April 2020, over 60 organisations – including Women’s Health in the South East – came together to support a statement on Gender, Equality and COVID-19. The statement recognises the huge impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the exceptionally difficult circumstances that the community find themselves in. The statement highlights that the impact of the pandemic…
Women’s Health in the South East: Operations and ways of work during COVID19 pandemic
Women’s Health in the South East’s vision is to see all women in our community safe, healthy and thriving. We want to assure you that during these uncertain times, our work will continue. To all our members, stakeholders and partners, we wish to advise that commencing immediately, we have enacted a business continuity plan to…
Power to Prevent: Urgent Actions Needed to Stop Sexual Harassment at Work
WHISE is a proud member of the Power2Prevent Coalition and we are a signatory to the collective statement with over 100 other organisations: Joint Statement We are a group of diverse organisations, unions, researchers, peak bodies, health professionals and lawyers who have come together to say we need to do more to stop sexual…
Aboriginal Self-determination: A safer future
In February, on behalf of the PVT Partnership, WHISE launched the first Communities of Practice (CoP) on intersectionality and diverse communities. The aim of our launch event was to support the prevention of violence against our First Nations women and children. We were honoured to have key matter experts present to us from Our Watch,…
Celebrating this her(storic) moment
WHISE congratulates Victorian Government on passing of landmark Gender Equality Legislation Today, Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) celebrates and congratulates all involved in the passing of a landmark legislation, which will drive organisational and cultural change to create sustained, enduring and measurable action on gender equality. “This legislation strengthens equality of rights and…
Healthier Masculinities for Gender Equality
If you weren’t able to make it to the recent forum on healthier masculinities for gender equality forum, here’s the wrap. Thank you again to all participants for your incredible energy on the day, to our key note speaker Dr Flood and to The Men’s Project, Our Watch, Eastern Health and AFL Outer East for…