Nomination form

Please complete the following online form to register your interest in including your initiatives in the Community Implementation Plan.

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Initiative details

Name of your initiative:This field is required

Which Queensland Women’s Strategy priority areas does your initiative support:Choose all that applyThis field is required

• Participation and leadership
• Economic security
• Safety
• Health and wellbeing

Participation and leadership

Which of the key actions outlined in the Strategy does your initiative support:Choose all that apply

• Work with Queensland employers to develop gender diversity in their workforce at all levels and require each Government Department to develop a gender equality action plan
• Encourage sharing by all sectors of policies that are achieving success in increasing women’s participation and progression in leadership and senior management roles
• Develop strategies and approaches to support women at all stages of life to enter and re-enter the workforce, and showcase flexible work success stories from the private, government and non-government sectors
• Develop employment initiatives to support employment outcomes for women as part of the Queensland Government’s Jobs Now, Jobs for the Future employment plan
• Promote economic development initiatives, such as market-led proposals, through relevant networks to help encourage high-quality proposals from women in business
• Encourage Queensland women to establish small businesses
• Work to make government delivered or funded customers services accessible and responsive to women and girls
• Develop education programs on effective leadership, challenging stereotypes, and unconscious bias, particularly in relation to recruitment and selection
• Increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s economic and social participation, including leadership roles within their communities, government, non-government organisations and the private sector
• Continue to support women while in prison and after their release to reduce reoffending and support their successful re-integration into the community
• Partner with industry to support an increase in the percentage of women on corporate boards and other leadership roles
• Build a culturally capable workforce within the public sector and funded non-government services to ensure effective engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse women
• Improve female students’ participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and building and construction subjects, and work with industry and organisations to provide career pathways and mentoring opportunities for young and mid-career women
• Other

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Economic security

Which of the key actions outlined in the Strategy does your initiative support:Choose all that apply

• Promote women's contributions and achievements in traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries and encourage more young women to enter and mid-career women to transition into these fields
• Research the true cost and drivers of the gender pay gap in Queensland
• Develop a self-audit tool to assess and address gender pay inequity for use by private, community and government sector organisations
• Host a dialogue on equal pay, including government, industry and community leaders, to share ideas and address barriers
• Examine the impact of career interruptions on women's superannuation and economic security in retirement and raise awareness of the retirement gender income gap
• Develop programs and tools to increase women's financial capability, including through superannuation providers
• Improve responses to support vulnerable women, including elderly women and single mothers, to access and sustain appropriate and affordable housing, to provide a platform for them to maintain economic security and participate equally in the community
• Implement the Financial Resilience and Inclusion Action Plan to better support Queenslanders including women with significant financial issues
• Develop specific actions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women within existing and new programs to increase the economic participation and employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the in public and small business sectors
• Explore partnerships with private sector to establish a fund to support initiatives that improve women's access to non-traditional employment
• Examine options to provide further support to vulnerable young women with their education, training and employment, such as programs for pregnant or parenting young women, women with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
• Support and facilitate greater participation by men in parenting, caring and domestic responsibilities and encourage men to take parental leave
• Increase women's knowledge and understanding of industrial relations, including employment terms and conditions and empower them to negotiate work arrangements, pay and other conditions
• Other

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Safety

Which of the key actions outlined in the Strategy does your initiative support:Choose all that apply

• Implement a violence against women prevention plan to eliminate all types of gendered violence
• Develop partnerships between government, non-government and private sector organisations to challenge and change the cultural attitudes towards women and girls that underpin violence
• Partner with relevant communities to improve our knowledge of all forms of violence against women and girls, including female genital mutilation, forced and servile marriage and trafficking, to support future action on these issues
• Partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men to develop strategies that address the high rates of violence against women
• Develop strategies to support women affected by violence to participate in education, training and employment and improve their financial security
• Empower men and boys to take action to prevent violence against women and girls
• Improve financial protections and build financial resilience and independence for vulnerable women
• Improve the experience of women and girls who are victims of crime in the legal and justice systems
• Recognise and respond to the specific needs of female offenders in the legal and justice systems.
• Work to improve media standards, policies and practices for the reporting of violence against women
• Implement policies and procedures to support female employees in the private, community and government sectors who are affected by violence
• Other

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Health

Which of the key actions outlined in the Strategy does your initiative support:Choose all that apply

• Partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men to address the high rates of teenage pregnancy
• Provide awareness raising and education programs targeting girls and their mothers or mentors, such as aunts, grandmothers or female friends, which provide information and support for healthy body image, body confidence and self-esteem
• Raise awareness of the female symptoms of serious health conditions including heart disease and heart attack that females are more likely than males to experience
• Develop and implement a Queensland sexual health strategy to address the sexual and reproductive health of all Queenslanders, including women
• Work to ensure women have access to appropriate health care throughout the different stages of their lives
• Improve access to appropriate information on planned parenthood options and reproductive and maternal health services, particularly for rural, regional and remote women
• Improve access to health services for groups with specific needs, including women with diverse sexual orientation, sex or gender identity, culturally and linguistically diverse women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and women with disability
• Promote women’s leadership and participation in sport and physical activity
• Work to reduce inequity between women’s and men’s sport including media coverage and conditions
• Continue to improve support services for women experiencing mental health conditions
• Work to eliminate advertising that promotes a negative body image or denigrates women
• Support rural and regional women to access non-discriminatory and confidential women’s health services
• Other

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Further details

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