Page 4010 - Week 10 - Thursday, 20 September 2018

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This demonstrates the ACT Government’s ongoing commitment to the ACT Women’s Plan and their leadership in advancing the status of women at work and in our community.

This additional funding provided to the Office for Women will support delivery of a suite of initiatives, including:

• Community engagement to promote gender equality in the ACT;

• Improving the evidence base related to gender equality;

• Training to reduce and eliminate unconscious bias across government;

• Promoting diversity on boards through the diversity register; and

• Delivering a board traineeship program for women.

Importantly, the Office for Women is resourced and charged with the responsibility of working with each and every government directorate to drive and deliver the commitments identified under the ACT Women’s Plan.

This additional investment will assist the broader community, including corporate businesses and community not-for-profit organisations, by providing additional tools to better address gender inequality in their own spheres of influence, and to give women in the community direct access to policy makers.

(b) The ten year plan is a whole of government commitment and is being implemented through three action plans. One hundred actions are being delivered through the First Action Plan 2017-19 which is a three year plan.

The full participation of women and girls in all aspects of society is critical to the wellbeing of the whole community, but educating the ACT community and ACT public service staff about continuing inequality and facilitating genuine and ongoing change is not a quick fix. That is why the ACT Government has committed to the delivery of the 10-year ACT Women’s Plan and will continue to address issues of gender equity as a whole of Government and community response coordinated by the Office for Women.

Implementation of the ACT Women’s Plan is to be undertaken through a series of action plans:

As occurred earlier this year, the government will report annually on the progress of the women’s action plans. These reports will be made available online once they are released.

Year one of the First Action Plan concluded in March this year and detailed reporting against the 44 year one actions is available via the Office for Women website.

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