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There are clear links between attitudes of disrespect and gender inequality and violence towards women. While most of us want to do the right thing and take a stand against disrespect, it can be tricky knowing what to say or do.
Preparation is key, and having a game plan in place can help you overcome any feelings of awkwardness or discomfort, and call out disrespectful behaviour when you see it.
Make Change in your Workplace
Everyone has the right to feel safe and respected at work, and it is crucial that workplaces enact gender-equal, respectful behaviour as a model for desirable cultural norms in home life and the wider community. Employees, management, employers and suppliers of all genders and generations have a role to play in a whole-workplace approach to workplace equality and respect.
What is Workplace Equality & Respect
Our Watch outlines three components to workplace equality and respect, and five standards all workplaces can work towards.
Following their step-by-step process enables workplaces to self-asses, identify key actions to achieve lasting change, and provides a suite of support tools and resources.
How would Workplace Equality & Respect work in my Workplace
Leaders who have implemented Workplace Equality and Respect initiatives share tips for promoting and embeding gender equality in your own workplace and embedding gender equality in your own workplace, via Our Watch.
Disrespect To Women At Work
Our Watch’s Doing Nothing Does Harm video series helps people recognise disrespect when they see it, and provides facts and tips for tackling disrespectful behaviour.
Workplace Accreditation
Workplaces play a critical role in providing safe environments for women, changing the cultural attitudes that underpin family violence, and eliminating men’s violence against women. Learn more about how White Ribbon’s Workplace Accreditation can help your workplace demonstrate your commitment to gender equality and creating a safe workplace for everyone.
Family Violence In The Workplace
Our Watch outlines three components to workplace equality and respect, and five standards all workplaces can work towards.
Following their step-by-step process enables workplaces to self-asses, identify key actions to achieve lasting change, and provides a suite of support tools and resources
Workplace Charter
Under its Carlton Respects Workplace Charter, Carlton Football Club partners the Australian business community to educate employees on the importance of gender equality for the prevention of violance against women.
Tomorrow Architects
Tomorrow Man and Tomorrow Woman offer a range of long form programs, facilitated group events and custom built workshops designed to reinvent people development by challenging gender norms and stereotypes.
Make Change in your Community
At Voice of Change we believe everyone has a role to play in preventing family violence. Community action can be built around sporting, cultural, or faith-based communities, local government or geographical location, common ideas, circumstances or passions, and any other group where people are unified by a common interest or purpose.
Family violence impacts all communities, affects families, workplaces and the economy, and has consequences for mortality rates, employment, housing and the physical and mental health of people across society.
The cultural attitudes that underpin gender inequality and family violence can be changed through a whole community response that engages like-minded people to work collaboratively to foster respect, healthy relationships and a safe environment for people of all religious and cultural backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the LGBTQI+ community, and minority and majority communities throughout society.
MAKE CHANGE IN YOUR SPORT
Sport is a central pillar of Australian life, bringing together diverse communities who share common goals, values and aspirations. As such sporting communities provide a significant opportunity to shape beliefs about gender equality, attitudes and behaviours around violence against women, and create sporting environments where women are safe, valued, treated respectfully and as equals.
MAKE CHANGE IN YOUR SCHOOL
Schools have a critical role to play in changing the wider cultural attitudes that underpin family violence.
Schools are centres of learning, workplaces, and community hubs. Everyone who is involved in a school community deserves to be treated respectfully and equally, and has a responsibility to behave in a way that promotes values of respect and gender equality.
Modelling and enacting respectful, gender equal behaviours, combined with classroom learning, has been shown to achieve significant change in attitudes and behaviours within school communities.
By embracing a whole-school approach that encompasses students, teachers and all school community members, we can embed a culture of respect and equality across all facets of school life from classrooms and staffrooms, to the sports field and events.
