This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2018.
AWARE welcomes the Government’s commitment in the Minister of Finance’s Budget Speech to increase spending for healthcare to address the challenges posed by our rapidly ageing population. However, it was painfully...
This post was originally published as a press release on 14 February 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) and disability advocacy group DPA (Disabled People’s Association) have called for stronger protection against employment discrimination in a joi...
This letter was originally published in TODAY Voices on 13 February 2018.
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) welcomes the publication of data on household income in the newly released Singstat report. Detailed information enables the public to better take part in important c...
This post was originally published as a press release on 12 January 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE submitted its eighth annual set of recommendations for the National Budget through the public consultation portal REACH on 12 January, calling for the Government to take concrete steps in endin...
This article was originally published in TODAY Voices on 14 December 2017.
AWARE supports recent calls made in the media to provide family caregivers with a caregiver allowance.
Many women who leave the workforce for family caregiving during their prime working years do not have enough for retir...
This post was originally published as a press release on 22 November 2017 and posted on the SG CEDAW Coalition website.
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The United Nations’ CEDAW committee has repeated its recommendation that Singapore include in its Constitution or laws a definition and prohibition of all...
For some time, AWARE has sought changes to HDB rules to improve housing access for single-parent families. MND has often responded that HDB exercises “flexibility” in favour of such families on a “case-by-case” basis. It suggests that even if rules appear exclusionary, these families’ need...
An edited version of this post was originally published as a letter in The Straits Times Forum on 10 November 2017.
Singapore’s performance in closing its gender gap worsened this year, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017. Ranked 65th out of 144 countries,...
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AWARE is looking for a social researcher to code interviews with mothers from low-income households, on the factors affecting their decisions about work. The data collected will help us to advocate for better support for such women.
As a cod...
