Advancing Women: Women & the Order of Australia
Together, Our Community and Women's Leadership Institute Australia are working to challenge and change women's role in society by pushing for systems changes and helping to empower women at all levels to take their place in all parts of Australian society.
We want to help open the doors to areas previously off-limits, while also ensuring that those areas in which women have traditionally worked are accorded appropriate value.
There is an increasingly obvious problem in the distribution of awards in Australia. Fewer women - many fewer women - than men are nominated, and that means fewer women than men get the awards.
Each and every one of us most probably knows at least one person who would qualify for an Australian honour. We - and the organisations we're associated with - owe it to them, and to the community at large, to put their names forward.