This post was originally published as a press release on 29 July 2021.
29 July 2021 - Implement comprehensive sexuality education covering consent, violence and gender roles in all schools in Singapore. Place a legal obligation on employers to address workplace harassment. Impose a temporary,...
The Singapore Alliance for Women in Ageing (SAWA) is an alliance of four organisations (AWARE, Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura, Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations and the Tsao Foundation), established in 2018 to raise awareness about the gendered nature of ageing in Singapore.
SAWA...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on July 15 2021.
Recent figures published by the Ministry of Manpower and Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM) show more employment-related appeals (More locals sought help on salary disputes, wrongful dismissals, July 10).
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This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 22 April 2021.
Journalist Malavika Menon's column, "Hard choice between career and motherhood" (April 18), resonated with me as a new mother who values her career as a social worker.
My daughter is only five months old, and various o...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on April 15 2021.
A recent survey by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry had a significant and alarming finding: two in five female respondents have experienced gender discrimination in the workplace compared with o...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on April 15 2021.
Eldercare has rightly been discussed as a matter of national concern.
Research by the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) in 2019 found that many women experience a change in work situation because of ...
A new survey by Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) found that 4 in 10 women had experienced gender-based discrimination at work, while only 1 in 10 men had experienced the same. These findings in many ways echo the observations of AWARE’s Workplace Harassment and Discrimina...
This letter was posted in Today on 14 March 2021.
The Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) is dismayed by the policy change on employment criteria for dependant’s pass holders in Singapore, where they will have to apply for a work pass to be hired here rather than on a Letter of...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 12 March 2021.
We hope that the Government will continue to engage with low-wage workers in Singapore, including workers with no formal contracts or employee benefits (Better support for gig workers to be looked into, says DPM Heng, Feb...
