Rights Talk: Gender equality, women’s work and care

As part of the Commission’s International Women’s Day celebrations, please join Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins for a special International Women’s Day RightsTalk on gender equality and women’s work and care on the 2nd March 2017.

This IWD RightsTalk will explore the recognition of unpaid care and domestic work that remains the burden of women in their gendered roles as wives, mothers and daughters in Sri Lanka, and the current dynamics in work, care and family policy in Australia.

Guest speakers:
Dr Sepali Kottegoda – Executive Director of the Women and Media Collective in Sri Lanka and Member of the Steering Committee Asia Pacific Women’s Watch

Dr Elizabeth Hill – Chair of the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on gender, work and care in both developed and emerging economies.

Click here for the link to the seminar