On 12 March, Dr Sharon Quah from the Asia Research Institute delivered a roundtable presentation at AWARE, discussing housing issues confronting Singaporean divorcees. Based on her interviews with 30 divorced Singapore women who sought access to public housing after divorce, she suggested that HDB p...
This press release was sent out on 23 February 2015.
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) applauds the emphasis on redistributive policies in the breakthrough Budget speech delivered by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today. The DPMâ...
The Lien Centre for Social Innovation, in close collaboration with the Asian Women’s Welfare Association and faculty and students at SMU, has designed a research project to explore the physical, social, and emotional status of residents aged 60 years and above living in Ang Mo Kio. Data gathe...
By Teo You Yenn
The differential treatment of parents based on their marital status has once more come under the spotlight. In response to parliamentary discussions, two Cabinet Ministers have recently reiterated that the state’s approach—of providing more benefits to married than unmarried p...
On 29 January, AWARE submitted its fifth annual set of recommendations for the national Budget through the public consultation portal REACH. This year, AWARE urges the Government to develop a caregiving infrastructure that provides adequate care of the elderly, children and disabled people...
By Goh Li Sian, Research and Advocacy Coordinator, AWARE
As Singapore’s population ages, more carers will be required to fulfil eldercare needs.
While volunteers have a role and their efforts are welcome, we would caution against relying on volunteering as a primary source of eldercare. (“...
On 24 January, 20 people attended AWARE's Pre-Budget Forum presenting our recommendations for the Singapore Budget 2015.
AWARE has been submitting recommendations for the Budget for the past five years. This year, our focus is on the need to create a caring economy which recognises and compen...
Over the last four years AWARE has made recommendations to the Ministry of Finance as part of the public consultations for the annual Singapore Budget.
Join our pre-budget forum to discuss the 2015 Budget and help us formulate our recommendations for the government's public consultation on t...
Join us at AWARE on 20 November 2014 to discuss how "work-life balance" as a problem is handled across class lines.
"Work-life balance" as a public problem has come to the fore in Singapore as in other developed countries. Women's capacities to balance wage-earning and caregiving  has received a...
