Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins says placing women at the centre of the nation’s coronavirus recovery would help address systemic factors driving the nation's scourge of domestic violence.
Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, has called for the social and economic potential of women to be"unleashed" through the country's coronavirus recovery efforts.
“I’m particularly concerned about the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on women’s economic position,” Ms Jenkins told the hearing. The inquiry heard on Monday that calls to Australia's domestic violence hotline, 1800 RESPECT, surged at the start of the pandemic and have remained higher than usual ever since.
Our Watch, the country's peak body against domestic violence, has also stressed the need for economic inequalities faced by women to become a focus of the coronavirus recovery. “The decisions that we are making now about how the economic recovery proceeds … can either advance gender equality or [this] can regress.Progress towards economic equality for women in Australia has been wiped out by the coronavirus
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