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Media Release 18/5/2022 The Tradeswomen Australia Workplace Diversity Project, successfully launched at Kangan Institute Docklands in 2021 by Ms Bronwyn Halfpenny MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Workplace Safety, was an important [...]

Throughout the Workplace Diversity Project and all its elements, we aim to equip the leaders we work alongside with the skills and knowledge to be diversity and inclusion champions in [...]

Whether it be job posting sites, the language used throughout the advertisement, or the interview process, unconscious and conscious bias can have negative impacts on your organisation’s ability to recruit [...]

A special program aimed breaking down the barriers that limit women’s participation as apprentices/trainees in the non-traditional trades was launched on Monday by the Tasmanian Minister for Women, the Hon. [...]

Media Release - 11 April, 2022 A special program aimed breaking down the barriers that limit women’s participation as apprentices/trainees in the non-traditional trades will be launched this morning by [...]

Gretchen Gagel interviews Jane Sydenham-Clarke From the start of her career as a nurse to moving into government health promotion and beyond to the C-suite, Jane has worked to improve [...]

Workplace culture is the accumulation of beliefs, behavioural expectations and value systems that combine to create an organisation’s working environment. A positive and supportive workplace culture can be the difference [...]

Women’s representation has remained less than 2% for twenty five years in core trades. Tradeswomen Australia said the growing voices of women around Australia is providing a focus for all [...]

Research shows that a diverse and inclusive workforce produces benefits such as increased productivity, profitability and competitiveness within an organisation. Developing a diverse and inclusive workforce not only creates organisational [...]

CEO Janet Cribbes brings extensive leadership and community services experience to Tradeswomen Australia as CEO, stepping down from the non-Executive role for Tradeswomen Community Foundation to take up the CEO role.  Until taking up her role at Tradeswomen Australia, Janet was the Chairperson for the Working Group developing the new Pathways Victoria Response model for Complaints and Response for the Catholic Church of Victoria. Janet is also a non-Executive director of two Boards, Wellsprings for Women as Chair and director for SEAM as sustainability social enterprise.