NWCI Submission to the Department of Social and Family Affairs on Proposals for Supporting Lone Pare

Published: Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Reforming the social welfare system and ending the unequal treatment of women in the system has been a key goal of the NWCI. In our report 'A Woman's Model for Social Welfare Reform' (2003), and our subsequent campaign, the NWCI clearly highlights the discrimination that women face in the social welfare system. Over 12,000 women joined in the Brown Envelope campaign to call on the Minister for Social and Family Affairs and Minister of Finance to introduce urgent change in the system to;

• Recognise parenting and care work
• Treat women as individuals in the system
• Recognise women's employment patterns

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